The 99th annual commencement took place on May 18 at the Milwaukee Theatre, at which the Medical College of Wisconsin and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded 202 MD, 38 PhD, 27 MS, 4 MA, and 18 Master of Public Health degrees, as well as bestowed numerous honors.
May 13 - MCW’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will hold an open house for prospective students on June 5. WauwatosaNOW
Apr 23 - Two Department of Biochemistry students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences won honors for their poster presentations at the Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium. Subarna Bhattacharya, in Dr. Rebekah Gundry's lab, won first place, and Kurt Kolander, in Dr. Ravi Misra's lab, won second place.
Mar 22 - Brian Dranka, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biophysics and member of Postdoctoral Advisory Committee, won the outstanding poster award at the 2013 annual meeting of the National Postdoctoral Association. Dr. Dranka presented a poster entitled, A Case Study for Policy Change.
When the Marquette University School of medicine was formed in 1913 from the merger of the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Medical Department of Marquette University/Milwaukee Medical College, it laid the foundation for the school that would become the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Mar 07 - The Medical College of Wisconsin/Marquette Medical Alumni Association presented Lawrence G. Pan, PT, PhD, FAPTA, with its Graduate School Alumnus of the Year award on March 6 at an all-student meeting of the MCW Graduate Student Association. This is the award’s second year.
Feb. 27 - Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget includes $7.4 million in bonding for MCW’s community-based medical education campuses in Central Wisconsin and Green Bay and $1.75 million to expand MCW’s family and community medicine residency program by 12 slots. Fox6 News, GazetteExtra, & St. Norbert Times
In 2004, Jeannette Vizuete began in the PhD program in Functional Imaging jointly offered by the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University. Jeannette is now nearing completion of the program and the achievement of her PhD. In this Q and A, Jeannette talks about her research and the program.
Medical College faculty and staff have collaborations on six continents and nearly all states in the nation. For details on specific collaborations, see the following information, which is conservative summary of the continuously expanding collaborations in all missions of the Medical College.
The Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University jointly offer a PhD program in Functional Imaging, which integrates experience in biomedical science and applied engineering in studies related to the brain.
MD-PhD student Max Cayo has accomplished the rare feat of obtaining an NIH grant as a student, and with his mentor, Stephen Duncan, PhD, is advancing research to improve treatments for cardiovascular diseases.
A new, interactive career planning tool has been developed by a Medical College of Wisconsin faculty member and alumnus, along with other U.S. collaborators.
A guest of the Medical Humanities Program, alumnus Dr. Jon Mukand returned to the College to read from his latest book, which features his rehabilitation research and individual victories over paralysis.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a transformative grant to the Medical College that supports a partnership of eight Milwaukee institutions designed to move research discoveries more quickly to patient applications. The $20 million Clinical and Translational Science Award bridges institutions to connect faculty members with complementary interests and expertise, such as Dr. Michelle Johnson, whose robots are aiding in stroke rehabilitation.
Philip S. Clifford, PhD, associate dean for postdoctoral education in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and professor of anesthesiology and physiology at MCW, creates an interactive career planning tool to help budding scientists develop step-by-step plans to reach their goals. Science Careers
Sept. 06 - A new interactive career planning tool developed by a Medical College of Wisconsin faculty member, along with faculty and staff from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), will be available online beginning Sept. 7. A beta version is available now.
Sept. 06 - Sandra Brown-Ford, a physiology graduate student in the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, is the recipient of a travel award for the 2012 American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting.
Aug. 13 - Alicia Thomas Barr, a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), is the recipient of a United Negro College Fund (UNCF)/Merck Science Initiative graduate research fellowship.
Mount Mary College and the MCW have signed a collaborative agreement to provide a dual degree program that includes a four-year baccalaureate degree from Mount Mary and a one-year Master of Public Health degree from MCW.
The Senior Awards Dinner for the Medical School Class of 2011 was held May 19, 2011, at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. The night was an opportunity to celebrate four years of accomplishment with friends and family.
Commencement was held for graduates of The Medical College of Wisconsin on May 20, 2011, at the Milwaukee Theatre. A total of 275 degrees were awarded to students of the Medical School and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, consisting of 206 MD, 21 PhD, 25 MS, 12 MA, and 11 MPH degrees.
Dr. Daniel McDermott has dedicated his career to the development of new drugs and study of their safety and efficacy in patient populations. His remarkable body of work led to his selection as the Medical College’s very first Graduate School Alumnus of the Year.
The John M. Kohler Foundation has given $250,000 to the Medical College of Wisconsin Global Health Program in memory of Dr. Elaine Kohler, a former associate professor of pediatrics and fellow alumna.