Our Graduate Students

PhD student Budd Tucker, supervised by Dr. Karen Mearow, doing cell culture in the lab. Budd and Adam Green share the role of president of the Medical Graduate Student Society.

Graduate students are a growing and important part of the student body in the Faculty of Medicine. Programs are available in: cancer, cardiovascular and renal sciences, clinical epidemiology, community health, genetics, immunology and neurosciences A new program began this year in applied health services research. During 2002-03 there were over 160 graduate students.

Let's Talk Science volunteer, Marlene Fouad, a graduate student in the cancer research program, visited Gander Academy during their Science and Technology Days 2003.

Let's Talk Science is an exceptional outreach program in which graduate students of the Faculty of Medicine participate. The national volunteer program is carried out by graduate students who respond to requests from teachers at elementary, junior high and high schools throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. They go to classrooms to give lectures and demonstrations, run labs, judge science fairs and provide scientific expertise. The students volunteer their time and the program is free. This year our graduate students visited more than 50 classrooms from St. John's to Churchill Falls and reached out to more than 2,500 kids directly.