News:

• Announcements (Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2003):

  • Healani Chang elected to the Board of Directors, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos, Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), 2003 - 2005.

• JABSOM Biomedical Symposium will be held on April 30, 2004.  Undergraduates will be in the morning and Graduates will be in the afternoon.

  • Make sure to submit your JABSOM poster to Richard by Wednesday, April 21, 2004 if you are planning to make a single large poster.

• 2003 Conference Pictures:

• SACNAS 2003

• ABRCMS 2003

• New Timesheet Submission Calendar for 2004 is available.  Please click here.

• Websites on Graduate School Application and CV Tips:

  • www.justcollege.com

  • www2.coloradocollege.edu/careercenter

  • www.mun.ca/ccd

  • www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices

  • www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/vita.shtml

• Informative website on how to create a good MS Powerpoint Presentation. For viewing, please click here.

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• For ALL Summer Participants!  Please take the time to fill out the on-line evaluation form located on the left side bar of this website.  It is mandatory for all participants to fill out this evaluation form.  The due date for the form is August 8, 2003.

• Summer Program Participation:

  • Tasha Kawamata:  Johns Hopkins

  • Skye Chang: Smithsonian Institute

  • Ana Inos: Stanford University

  • Brent Rubio: Columbia University (NSF), Biosphere II, Az.

  • Grant Kauwe: University of California at San Francisco

  • Osler Andres: University of California at San Diego (STARS)

  • Nel Venzon: Dartmouth University

  • Christopher Cuyno: University of Pittsburgh

  • Malia Noyes: University of Oregon

• Osler's Presentation on his University of California at San Francisco, Health Science Research Colloquium 2003.

  • PowerPoint presentation on "Interviewing Skills", click HERE

  • Word document on "Possible Interview Questions", click HERE

• Guest Speaker: Christianne Robbins from The National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Health.  Topic: Genome Funding and Training Opportunities.  (9:00 to 9:20am)  To view the PowerPoint presentation, click HERE

• Remember to attend the GRE class on April 25 and May 2.  Attendance is mandatory for all MARC students.

• JABSOM Biomedical Symposium will be held Friday, April 25.  The abstract for the Symposium is due on Thursday, March 13 during the CMB class. It is mandatory for all program participants to present at this Symposium.  Your abstract must be written on the official abstract form.  To obtain an official abstract form, click here.

• Click on the GRE Prep Class website below for updated class information:

  • GRE Prep Class

• Here's some website that gives helpful hints on writing a Curriculum Vitae:

  • http://www.alec.co.uk/cvtips/index.htm

  • http://www.soon.org.uk/cvpage.htm

  • http://www.edinburghconcepts.com/cv%5Fevaluation%5Ftips.htm

• Here's some website that gives helpful hints on writing a personal statement:

  • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_perstate.html

  • http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/perstate.html

• For all current program participants.  Please periodically visit CMB 499 and 699 syllabus for update to the class.  To view current syllabus, click here.

• Journal Club Rescheduling for March 6:

  ·    Journal Clubs 2, 3 and 4

  • Journal Club 2 (Kanani and Brent): "Ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants used for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and cardiac diseases in the south-east region of Morocco (Tafilalet)."

  • Journal Club 3 (Nel and Ana): "Alpha-Glucosidase Inhibitors Reduce Dengue Virus Production by Affecting the Initial Steps of Virion Morphogenesis in the Endoplasmic Reticulum."

  • Journal Club 4 (Matt and Rachel): "p63 and p73 are required for p53-dependent apoptosis in response to DNA damage."

   

• For CMB class for Thursday, Feb. 20 is a tour to Center for Hawaiian Studies, Lo‘i

  • Given by Levon Ohai, Kahuna La‘au La Pa‘au

  • Instructions: Meet at the main stairs located at:

    • Center for Hawaii Studies Building

• Please make sure you look at the new updates on the CMB 499 and 699 class syllabus schedule.  Guest Speaker: Dr. Ken Kaneshiro will present his work on Thursday, Feb. 13.  For more information, please look at the on-line class syllabus.

• Guest Speaker: Dr. Ralph Garruto, Research Professor of Anthropology and Neurosciences at Binghamton University. 

• “Development of Transdisciplinary Biomedical Research Center.”  Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology website is given below:

• http://anthro.binghamton.edu/main2.html

• Endocrine Society Lecture.  Tuesday, February 4 at AgSci Building Room 219 from 8:30 to 10:15 am.  Lecture: "Reproductive Endocrinology in the 20th Century."   Presented by Dr. Neena Schwartz.

• Special Announcement: Meet Dan Rodgers, former UHM MARC Scholar. Thursday, January 23 at 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. at AgSci Room 202.  He is presently at the Department of Pediatrics, a Division of Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine.  You may visit Dr. Rodgers' website:

  • http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pediatricendocrinology/faculty/rodgers/index.html

• End of Semester Spaghetti Night Party at Buca di Beppo at 5:00pm.  Cost will be $22.00 per person.  Payment will be collected at the November 20 CMB 499 class.

• Counseling and Student Development Center at the Queen Lili'uokalani Center for Student Services are holding various workshop during the Fall 2002 semester.

  • For workshop flyers, click here.

  • For computer-based testing, i.e. GRE, click here.

  • For personal development groups page 1, click here.

  • For personal development groups page 2, click here.

• FREE Graduate Strategy Sessions. There will be some upcoming FREE strategy sessions for the GRE, LSAT, GMAT this month. Call the Princeton Review to reserve you spot:  947-5988.  It will be held: Saturday, October 26 at the Queen Lili'uokalani Center for Student Services:

  • 9-10 am       GRE   room 412

  • 10-11 am     GMAT   room 412

  • 10-11 am     LSAT    room 411

  • Take a free practice MCAT Exam on Sunday, Oct. 27.  Room to be announced.  Need to reserve space with the Princeton Review: 947-5988.

• Visiting Extramural Speaker - Dr. Jose Torres-Ruiz, MARC Director, Ponce School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico. To look at individual meeting schedule, click here.  Dr. Torres-Ruiz will conduct two lectures:

  • Lecture on "Nutrition" will be at Sherman Laboratory Conference Room.  This Lecture will begin at 3:00pm Monday, October 28.

  • Lecture on "General Metabolism" will be at Agricultural Science Building, Room 219. This lecture will begin at 3:00pm Tuesday, October 29.

• Special guest lecture regarding "Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplants in the Ethnic Minority Community" (sponsored by the Department of Psychology) is being held at Gartley Hall, Room 102 on October 23, 2002 (Wednesday).  The lecture will be conducted by Dr. John Robinson who is an internationally known pioneer in the area of ethnocultural and racial variations in human health and well being.  In this lecture, critical issues will be raised about nature, meaning, and consequences of organ transplants in the ethnic minority community.  Please contact Dr. Anthony Marsella at 956-8414 for further information.

• Dr. Gabor Mocz, manager of the Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Institute and Training Facility has agreed to provide a facility tour on Wednesday, October 16, 2002.
  
  Please meet at the lower entrance of  Gilmore Hall, 3050 Maile Way--at the "butterfly wall" promptly at 5pm as the building will be locked.  Dr. Mocz will have to provide entry to the building as the facility itself is located on the 4th floor.
   

• University of Hawaii at Manoa Outreach College is providing a noncredit workshop on "Preparing for the GRE (Graduate Record Exam)" on Sept 18 to Oct 5.  The cost is $250 which includes Kaplan textbook.  For further information, click here.

• August 14-15, 2002, Graduate Record Exam seminar given by Dr. Aftab Hassan of Metro Academic Research, New York.  Location: Agricultural Sciences Building, #219; 1995 East-West Road.  Time: 9:00am to 4:00pm.  For picture, click here.

• Return of second year students from summer extramural programs at various universities throughout the nation. For further information, click here.