Students present research at Graduate Symposium
The Graduate Student Council's 5th Annual Graduate Symposium was held on Saturday, affording students from several disciplines the opportunity to present their research projects to faculty and community members.
"The Graduate Student Symposium is a great chance for our graduate students to get the credit and exposure they so richly deserve," said Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Robert Hollister in an interview with the Graduate Matters newsletter. "I am impressed by the preparation, diligence, and knowledge that our students bring to the symposium."
Students delivered 15-minute talks about their work and took questions from the audience. Awards were distributed based on the quality of the presentations, rather than the content of the research.
Occupational therapy graduate student Dan Craig took home an award for the presentation of his project, titled "The Relationship between Meaningfulness and Emotional Responses to Music."
"I was the only presenter from the Boston School of Occupational Therapy, though my research had a strong music focus," he said.
Other fields represented at the symposium included drama and dance, engineering, math, biology, English, and history. Faculty members from the represented departments served as judges.
Medical students "matched" with resident positions
Students at Tufts' School of Medicine anxiously took part in a 40-year-old annual ritual called "Match Day" last month when they received letters of admittance to medical residency programs. The process is described by Medical School Dean John Harrington as the 'test' of the school's educational mission, which includes the creation of physicians and the perpetuation of knowledge.Harrington's students did exceptionally well, according to the dean, with 74 percent of the fourth-year students receiving letters from one of their top two choices. Almost 90 percent matched with their third or fourth choices. Nearly 30 students will be residents at teaching affiliates of Tufts, including Lahey, New England Medical Center, Baystate, St. Elizabeth's, and Newton Wellesley hospitals.
Others will work at hospitals affiliated with Boston University, Cornell, Yale, Northwestern, and other prominent institutions.
New award recognizes student teaching at Sackler
Two student teachers at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences will become the first recipients of the Norman and Susan Krinsky Excellence in Teaching Award this afternoon.Michael Perloff and Jill Warrington study pharmacology at the Sackler school. Perloff has been a student at Sackler since 1996 and has researched topics such as alterations in drug absorption and distribution in the intestine and brain. Warrington began her studies at Sackler in 1998 and has focused on in the effects of aging on drug metabolism.
The teaching award was established by Norman Krinsky, a professor emeritus of biochemistry, and his wife Susan, to mark Mr. Krinsky's 40 years of involvement with Tufts.
