When Doctoral Students Play Doctor

A robust 23-year-old with no history of heart problems is exhibiting all the signs of a heart attack; his heart is pound- ing and he is terrified.  “Help me, doc! I don’t want to die!” he pleads.

Three PhD students gather round the patient--newly admitted to “Harvard Hospital”--and try to figure out, based on a day of training, how to save a life...(read more)

2nd Annual HILS Summer Gathering
The 2nd annual HILS Summer Gathering was attended by more than 230 high school and undergraduate science students doing summer research internships in Harvard labs.  The event, held on July 9 2008 at the Harvard Queens Head Pub in Cambridge, was a solid success. 

The goal of the Gathering was to provide an opportunity for interns (and their aflliated faculty mentors, graduate students, post docs, and staff) to mix with their peers from other parts of the Harvard community. 

Summer program participants included:

* Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program

  (SHURP) at Harvard Medical School
* FAS Center for Systems Biology Undergraduate Research  

   Internship Program
* Project Success at Harvard Medical School
* Division of Biological Sciences Summer Internship  

   Program at the Harvard School of Public Health

* School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

   Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program
* Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE)  

   Program at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC)
* Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Summer

   Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
* Summer Undergraduate Program in Immunology at   

   Harvard Medical School
* Harvard College Program for Research in Science and   

   Engineering (PRISE)

* Summer Research Trainee Program (SRTP) at

   Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
* Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH)
* HHMI EXROP (exceptional research opportunities) Summer  

   Program
* Freshmen from Economically and Educationally

   Disadvantaged backgrounds in Science (FEEDS)
* Four Directions Summer Research Program at Harvard  

   Medical School

For additional pictures, see the HILS Photo Gallery.

Questions About HILS? 

If you need more information about the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences initiative, don’t hesitate to contact HILS Dean John McNally (jmcnally@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0616) or HILS Staff Assistant Matt Wallace (hils@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-9500)

Because groundbreaking research in the life sciences is now more interdisciplinary than ever, Harvard has created the Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) Graduate Program.  HILS integrates 12 graduate programs across 4 Harvard faculties, and oversees all PhD education in the life sciences.

To learn more about HILS click here.