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Jamie Nelly Guillen Magaña is a PhD candidate in the Driskill Graduate Program (DGP) in Hematology and Oncology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the role of the Schlafen 12 protein (SLFN12) in glioblastoma progression and therapeutic resistance. Jamie served as an intern for the TGS Office of Diversity and Inclusion and is an active member of several organizations, including the DGP Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee and the cancer biology cluster leadership team. She also serves as the president of Communidad Latinx.

Learn more in our Spotlight Series here: https://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/our-people/spotlight/jamie-nelly-guillen-maga%C3%B1a-sheher.html

Nights at Dearborn Observatory,CIERA Astronomer Evenings bring astronomy education to the public Every Friday evening, Northwestern’s Dearborn Observatory holds free “Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory” where the public can come and look through the Dearborn telescope.  The event lasts two hours — the first hour of tours being reservation only and the second hour of tours being ...

The Graduate School's Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) is accepting applications from second- and third-year graduate students for the ODI Graduate Internship. This nine-month, paid internship will offer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based professional development and leadership support for graduate students who resonate with the mission to build and maintain inclusive environments in higher education.

Learn more and apply here by Friday, July 19: https://forms.tgs.northwestern.edu/view.php?id=373392

Tech can’t replace human coaches in obesity treatment A new study shows technology alone can't replace human coaches for effective weight loss treatment.

A one day ‘The Bear’-inspired food tour because if Sydney can do it, we can too Since “The Bear” first came out in June 2022, everyone I knew was telling me to watch it. As an avid restaurant-goer and self-proclaimed food connoisseur, I always surprised my friends when I said I hadn’t given the series a try.  The show is a comedy-drama set in Chicago. It’s intense and ...