![]() were part of the university's Franciscan Health Care Professions program began their studies at George Washing- ton University School of Medicine last August. medical students who participated in George Washington's annual White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 20, 2011. The ceremony officially welcomes first-year students into the GW Medical Center community. ical white coats, recited an oath, and signed the School of Medicine's Honor Code. Ten of the St. Bonaventure stu- Combined Degree Program in Medicine as incoming SBU freshmen, while one reserved her seat at GW as a St. Bona- venture sophomore through the Early Assurance Program. awarded a provisional acceptance to George Washington School of Medicine and seats were reserved for them at GW upon satisfactory completion of academic requirements at SBU. dents per year for freshman entry into this prestigious and highly competitive dual admission program with George Washington. competition held at SBU regional phase of the 2012 MATH- COUNTS competition, a national con- test for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students. and in four-person school teams on ques- tions designed by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the main sponsoring organization. The two schools competing were Allegany-Lime- stone Middle School and Cheektowaga Central School. Allegany-Limestone gar- nered top individual and top school honors. social inequality in SBU talk Ph.D., talked about "Social Inequality, Affirmative Action, and Reparations" in a March 15 pro- gram on campus. Holmes was the spring semester Lenna Endowed Vis- iting Professor. the Lenna Endowed Visiting Professorship is funded through gifts from the late Betty S. Lenna Fairbank and Reginald A. Lenna of Jamestown. ophy at the University of Rochester. He specializes in ethics, and in social and political philosophy. Holmes sat in on Dr. Barry Gan's Philos- ture University's Franciscan Health Care Professions Program, include (front row, from left) Anita Sambamurty, Kirsten Norrell, Priya Singhal, Keelan O'Connell and Ashley Kakkanatt. In back (from left) are Geetha Bhagavatula, Whitney Thomas, Jill Remick, Kevin Okapal, Darius Mobarakeh and Mark Ghassibi. u e s t s p e a k e r M I N Kelly and poet David Smith-Ferri shared Afghanistan experiences with the university community. gave talks during a two-day visit to campus, including a presentation about Dorothy Day, an activist and founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Department of Mathematics hosted the Seaway Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America. University of Toronto discusses "The Hardest Math I've Ever Really Used" at George Washington University School of Medicine |