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New Haven Middle Schoolers' Experiential Visit to Yale School of Medicine

The Yale School of Medicine MD Class of 2025 co-presidents organized an experiential visit for 19 New Haven middle school girls involved in a STEM program. The co-presidents planned the visit based on a challenge from their Commencement speaker, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD (also known as Dr. Q), to find a way to impact the world. Dr. Q engaged in Q&A with the middle school students by video, as part of the visit.

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  • Yale Cancer Center Annual Awards

    Formerly called the Conclave Awards, the 2025 Spring Yale Cancer Center awards honored research, clinical expertise, and support staff at the Hotel Marcel, New Haven on April 1, 2025.

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  • Walking the Leadership Walk in Academic Medicine

    In the latest Yale Child Study Center  “On Leadership” blog post and newsletter column, Daryn David, PhD, PCC, reflects on a recent Grand Rounds talk, presented by Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, and Maria Restrepo-Toro, MSN, BSN, representing the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), within the Department of Psychiatry.

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  • Seeds of Success launches a second chapter in Connecticut

    CienciaPR's executive director Greetchen Díaz Muñoz always dreamed of growing Semillas de Triunfo, one of the organization's flagship programs, outside of Puerto Rico. This past Saturday, January 25, 2025, ten years after founding the program, her yearning to create seedbeds of girls leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in other regions was fulfilled with the launch of the second chapter of Semillas de Triunfo in New Haven, Connecticut, known as Seeds of Success-New Haven. Seeds of Success-New Haven is being conducted in collaboration with Yale University. It is being led there by Carolina Machado, project manager, and Giovanna Guerrero Medina, former executive director of CienciaPR and now a senior advisor to the organization.

    Source: Ciencia Puerto Rico
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  • 250 Students Gather at Yale for APAMSA Regional Conference

    Never Enough: ADHD Experiences in Asian Americans Working with Limited English Proficient Patients and their Interpreters WE Medicine: Convergence of Western and Eastern Medicine to Develop Future Medicines These titles represent a few of the breakout session topics at the day-long annual Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association Region I/II conference on Saturday, October 12, at Yale School of Medicine.

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  • Panel: Confronting History, Rebuilding Trust

    Following David Blight’s lecture on the findings of the Yale and Slavery history project, Yale School of Medicine convened a panel of faculty to discuss efforts to confront that history, restore, rebuild trust, and build authentic community -- including in caring for the New Haven community and in creating partnerships with HBCUs. 

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