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Hoping to heal the human body, Harvard pre-meds are learning that applying to medical school can cost an arm and a leg. A typical Harvard undergraduate applying to medical school can rack up more than $6,000 in costs for applications, the MCAT, test prep, and travel costs for interviews, according to students and advisers. While some resources are available for undergraduates from low-income backgrounds, including loans from the Harvard Financial Aid Office, many applicants do not qualify for application fee waivers and medical schools do not offer financial aid for students not yet enrolled. These expenses...
...each to crowd into a basement lecture hall on the Providence campus to hear jokes about race, sex, pop culture and their generation's ambivalent feelings about current events. "My friends are fasting for Darfur, and I'm like, is that like Ramadan?" riffed Christine Sunu, 19, a pre-med student. "Free Tibet? Did it cost anything...
...with a capital D. The girl next to me got the word measles, and I left the stage tearfully.I promise I’ve moved on.Since the event seven years ago, I have hardly thought about my experience in the spelling bee. As a pre-med, I now know what an embolism is, and how to spell it, but I had rarely thought about how that one word, and the whole experience in general, made a difference in my life until a recent string of unrelated spelling events. I often debate with friends of mine about the value of spelling...
...Knep says.Along these lines, he makes many of his pieces interactive, with motion sensors that change the artwork depending on the position or actions of the viewer.That’s all well and good, but what exactly does interactive art have to do with Systems Biology at the Med School?FROM BROWN TO BRONTOSAURSKnep doesn’t look like an “experimental artist.” With his average height and conservative dress, he’s easy to lose sight of in a crowd, and wouldn’t be caught dead in a beret...
...hottest potential applications for Schultz's invention is fighting burns from sulfur mustard, which was Saddam Hussein's poison gas of choice. (He deployed it against Iraq's Kurds and stockpiled it for use on coalition troops.) The U.S. Army has asked Schultz and his company, Quick-Med Technologies of Gainesville, Fla., to develop a dressing that could be used to treat sulfur-mustard blisters. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has ordered up $1 million worth of research into a mustard-gas ointment. "It's all the same technology," says Schultz. "It's just adapted for different uses...