Tag: Awards
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Students Support National Women’s Health Week by Selling T-shirts and Pins
In honor of National Women’s Health Week, which runs now through Saturday, May 19, the American Medical Women’s Association, American Medical Student Association, and Medical Students for Choice are raising money for the Chicago Women’s Health Center by selling women’s health t-shirts for $15 and lapel pins for $3. Donations are also welcome.
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PPH Service Initiative Pilot Program a Success
Students in the Program in Public Health service initiative spent six months as consultants on a host of client issues ranging from sexual education in the nation’s third-largest school district, to analyzing data for the city of Evanston.
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Curriculum Development Symposium Offers Skills, Case Study for Change
The Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME) hosted its first-ever curriculum development symposium May 2-3. The event included workshops, brown-bag lectures, and personal consultations.
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Preparing Students for Research and Clinical Careers
The Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling, offered through the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Genetic Medicine (CGM), is the only program of its kind in Illinois and the only program in the country that offers an option to pursue a combined Master of Science in Genetic Counseling and Master of Arts in…
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Catching Up on the Medical School, with Classmates at Alumni Weekend 2012
This year’s Alumni Weekend was the first time Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine had an alumnus celebrating his 70th-year reunion in attendance. George Bulkley, MD’42, joined almost 600 other alumni, guests, faculty, and students on April 27-28 for two days of fun and education.
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Jack Kessler Finishes Stellar Run as Chair of the Department of Neurology at Feinberg
John “Jack” Kessler, MD, Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology, has completed his administrative service as chair neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine—an era that is full of accomplishment, and will return fulltime to his important laboratory research and academic life at the medical school.
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Student Group Nclude Helping Disabled Youth Realize Abilities
Members of the student organization Nclude take part each month in Teen Night at the RIC, an event that brings together youths between the ages of 12 and 17, many of whom suffer from cerebral palsy.
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Prospective Students Get a Second Look at Feinberg
The Office of Admissions at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine hosted its annual Second Look event for prospective students April 12-13.
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Saving a Life at the Shamrock Shuffle
Paul Jansson, a first year medical student, was volunteering at an aid station at the 2012 Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle on Sunday, March 25, when a 63-year-old man suffered sudden cardiac arrest at mile three.
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Student receives AMA Foundation Seed Grant
Muthu Vaduganathan, a fourth year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, was awarded a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program.
