HMS/HSDM Class Day
2005
The Doctor’s Advice: Talk to Strangers
Faculty Symposium
Profs Tell Tales of Molecular Medicine
HSPH Class Day
UN Official Sees Women’s Health Crisis in Africa
Alumni Day
How Doctors Speak to the Public
Class Symposium
For Class of ’80, Risk and Reward Mark a Productive 25 Years
DMS Symposium
Integration Key to Student Success in Life Sciences
Student Speakers
Students Recount Lessons Learned
Scenes From Alumni Week
Pictures from Commencement and Alumni Week activities
Student and Faculty Awards
Honors Given to Faculty and Students During Commencement
Growth Factor May Aid in Crohn’s Disease Treatment
Bench Science Advances Against Cancer
Dental School Dedicates New Building on Longwood
Faculty Health Survey Being Conducted
Awards Recognize Advancement of Women
BLAST Resource Available to HMS Faculty
The July Effect: How Hospitals Cope with Intern Turnover
Dental School Dedicates New Building on Longwood
 Photos by Steve Gilbert |
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Ninety-nine years after HSDM’s main building opened its doors, the School has dedicated a new facility. Its new research and education building, a sleek structure of glass and steel, is the School’s first new permanent building since the original brick edifice was constructed in 1906. The 53,000-square-foot structure doubles HSDM’s space. At the dedication on June 10, R. Bruce Donoff (inset), the Walter C. Guralnick distinguished professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery and dean of HSDM, commended Harvard University for its backing and personally thanked HMS dean Joseph Martin for his support. This building, he told Martin and the audience gathered for the celebration, “is a dream come true.”
Faculty Health Survey Being Conducted
About every 10 years, the Harvard Health Letter, one of the Medical School’s five newsletters for the general public, surveys faculty members about their health behaviors and attitudes. The Health Letter is now conducting the HMS 2005 Faculty Health Survey online. Editor-in-chief Anthony Komaroff asks all HMS faculty to please take five minutes to fill out the survey. Answers are completely anonymous. The results will appear in the Health Letter’s October 2005 issue and be posted on its website and on eCommons. The deadline for completing the survey is July 8.
Awards Recognize Advancement of Women
The HMS/HSDM Joint Committee on the Status of Women announced the recipients of its annual awards recognizing those who have done the most to advance the two schools’ female faculty and staff. Jane Weeks, HMS professor of medicine at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and HSPH professor of health policy and management, was honored with the 2005 Dean’s Award for Leadership in the Advancement of Women Faculty. The 2005 Dean’s Award for Leadership in the Advancement of Women Staff was given to Mary Cassesso, the HSDM dean for administration and finance. Both were praised for their work as mentors and advisers.
BLAST Resource Available to HMS Faculty
The Medical School’s Computational Biology Initiative has developed Bull, a parallel batch BLAST resource, available to researchers at HMS and its affiliates at https://rodeo.med.harvard.edu. The application is a fully parallel implementation of NCBI BLAST algorithms that runs on a shared Linux cluster. Using Bull, all NCBI BLAST jobs are “state-aware” so they are not lost if a browser window inadvertently closes. Furthermore, Bull stores BLAST results on the shared cluster for later viewing in a user-friendly interface that allows results to be named according to the user’s preference and sorted on query sequence name, database name, BLAST score, and time of job execution. The interface allows results to be deleted as well. Bull also enables BLAST searches against multiple databases simultaneously. In addition to the above features, a user may share chosen results with selected colleagues. Further information about Bull may be found at the URL above.