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| Dimensions: The Center for the Science and Culture of Healthcare is an academic program at Cornell with the mission of educating, informing, and inspiring students regarding the art, culture, and science of healthcare. While at Cornell, students come to understand the importance of empathy and communication, of discipline and creativity, and of individual initiative and teamwork associated with any successful healthcare career. | |||||
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 Artistic Endeavors: Still Life Drawing Workshop During the first block break of the year, students had an opportunity to participate in a hands-on still life drawing workshop. The workshop began with a brief introduction to the baroque still life tradition known as the vanitas, one that celebrates earthly pleasures while reminding one of life's brevity. Over the course of the two sessions, students completed a unique still life reflecting visual and conceptual understanding of the vanitas. Student artwork from the workshop can be seen hanging in the study alcoves in West Science. |
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 Medicalization of Social NormsIn early October, Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger brought several corners of the Cornell campus together for her multidisciplinary lecture, Measuring Phalluses, Separating Twins, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells us About Today's Social Norms. A faculty member in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University, Dr. Dreger's work focuses on using history to improve the biomedical and social treatment of people born intersexed orwith other socially-challenging conditions, such asconjoinment, dwarfism, and cleft lip. Dr. Dreger also participated in three Cornell courses: Biopsychology, Introduction to Women's Studies, and Gender and Social Institutions. |
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Alumni Connections |
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 From the Hilltop to Chicago and Back AgainWhen Dr. Richard Kraig graduated from Cornell with a major in Chemistry in 1971, he didn't realize he'd return to the Hilltop 36 years later to co-teach with biology professors Barbara Christie-Pope and Craig Tepper under the newfangled "block plan." But during Block 1 of 2007, Dr. Kraig commuted four times from the University of Chicago to Cornell to lecture to students enrolled in the Neurobiology and Foundations of Cellular Biology courses. Since building a relationship with Dimensions in 2006, Dr. Kraig has also hosted Christie-Pope and three students in his lab at the Brain Research Center at the University of Chicago. |
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Student Experiences |
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| From Extraordinary Experience to Work Opportunity Abraham Zepeda’07 was looking for an internship to round out his senior year. During his junior year, he had taken an interdisciplinary chemistry course, Forensic Chemistry, featuring alum Jason Kolowski '98 of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office as a visiting Alumni in Residence. The course, and meeting Mr. Kolowski, piqued Abe's interests, and he wondered if there might be a way to pursue a forensics internship in NYC. After discussing ideas with his advisor and contacting Bobbi Buckner Bentz, the Dimensions Program Coordinator, he was packing his bags to spend 8th and 9th block in the Big Apple. Through the alumni connection and using Dimensions funding to support his stay, Abe was able to work in NYC for two months and now calls the city, and the medical examiner's office, his home. |
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Recent Alumni Updates |
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| Extraordinary Experiences to Graduate/Professional School Walking across the stage in June, the class of 2007 reflected upon the amazing opportunities they took advantage of while on the Hilltop. Those students have since begun medical school, Ph.D. programs, and other graduate school programs in the health sciences. Three students who participated in Operation Walk in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador, respectively, are now attending medical school at the Universities of Kansas, Missouri, and Minnesota. One student learned the latest in genetics research as a Dimensions Fellow at TGen in Phoenix and is now a Ph.D. student in statistical genetics at Iowa State University. Another student realized her passion for patient care and is now a first-year physician assistant student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. This year, current seniors are in the process of applying to graduate and professional programs in allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy, public health, dentistry, and many other programs across the spectrum of science. |
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The Dimensions Newsletter is a quarterly publication of Dimensions: The Center for the Science and Culture of Healthcare at Cornell College. Contact Bobbi Buckner Bentz at bbentz@cornellcollege.edu with feedback or to receive more information about Dimensions. |
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