Encounterings
Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths, any word becomes an hour, and every hour spent coaxing: lost, incongruous, evolving meanings into being.
Let's Get Together
In college, I used to have this one thought every finals week after weekends of pushing back studying while going...
Is Race a Factor in HIV Prevention?
HIV rates are declining as a whole among men who have sex with men, but rates aren’t decreasing for Black...
Surprise, I’m Gay! (and Christian)
I am a Christian. And I am gay. These two factions of my life have clashed and pulled me in...
Chancellor’s Concert Series Threatened
The future of medicine is prevention. And yet, like so many organizations so excited about measurable outcomes that they’ve forgotten...
Sensationalizing Science
“Natural selection making 'education genes' rarer.” “Intelligence is being bred out of the gene pool.” Can you recognize which of...
The Resurgence of IUDs
“Every time I place an intrauterine device I feel like Margaret Sanger!” Lisa DiGiorgio-Haag exclaimed. DiGiorgio-Haag has been a nurse...
Doctors Under Fire
As future medical professionals, it is imperative that we stay informed of the rapidly changing landscape of medical aid in...
Election Grief
Waking to a different country, alternate universe. Feeling that the values I was raised with have been demolished. Questioning whether...
Take Healing to the Streets
The Do No Harm Coalition views the 2016 Presidential Election of Donald Trump as a heavy reminder that illness, injustice...