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Almost a year to the day after the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, a group of 18 medical students gathered for lunch and conversation in the annex of the Hopewell Baptist Church on Fillmore Avenue. The students from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University were all familiar with the universal struggles that go along with attending medical school. But that wasn’t the only thing they had in common. 

The 2023 commencement ceremony for biomedical sciences — graduate and undergraduate students, with Roswell Park Graduate Division students — was at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday!

Panelists at the “Racism, Racial Literacy and Mental Health” conversation tackled tough questions at an event marking the one-year anniversary of the Tops racist shooting.

Keynote speaker Christopher St. Vil, PhD, advocated for CVI, which focuses on supporting the people who are at the highest risk of engaging in violence.

Chloe Cottone, a first-year medical student at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, had a problem that could have quickly derailed her dream of becoming a surgeon.

Second Look Weekend provides accepted students from groups historically underrepresented in medicine with the opportunity to learn more details about what the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the University at Buffalo have to offer.

Entrepreneurship is alive and well among medical students at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

A large crowd of inductees and their families and friends were in attendance for UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society induction.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical students who were recipients of 2022 Fellowships in Social Justice, Equity Administration and Leadership presented their research findings at a symposium April 19.

Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, was honored with the 2023 Chancellor’s Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Ophthalmology from the Neuroscience Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health New Orleans.

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences graduated 175 medical students during the 177^th commencement on April 28.

Nicholas J. Silvestri, MD, clinical associate professor of neurology and associate dean for student and academic affairs, paid tribute to the late Jonathan D. Daniels, MD, during the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science’s annual Honors Convocation, which took place April 28 at UB’s Center for the Arts.

Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is the first SUNY-affiliated recipient of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Research Program Award (R35).