Graduating in the Time of COVID-19
A photo featured on the Wellesley College website in May 2016 — the Science Center, embellished in red — was how I always imaged my… Read More »Graduating in the Time of COVID-19
A photo featured on the Wellesley College website in May 2016 — the Science Center, embellished in red — was how I always imaged my… Read More »Graduating in the Time of COVID-19
Our medical students, residents, postdocs and fellows have a lot to share — from daily life in the classroom, tips on thriving during residency, new… Read More »Become a Biomedical Odyssey Blogger!
Guest post by Oscar Li, second-year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In college, I was just another premed student with… Read More »Med Student Creates Animated Documentary for Scholarly Concentration Project
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Note: In an emergency, please call 911 or the following: UHS: After-Hours Medical Emergency: 410-955-4331. After-Hours Psychiatric Emergency: 410-955-1892. JHSAP: 443-287-7000, option #1. Prevalence of the… Read More »Peer Health Navigators: A Listening Ear
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Motivation to learn the unknown is a critical part of my work as a researcher. I once spent two years building a half-million dollar, two-photon… Read More »Where and How to Find a Used Car in Baltimore