Have you ever dreamed of assisting biomedical professionals conduct research in a lab? Have you ever wanted to test the waters of your future careers by helping real doctors perform vital tasks? This summer, three lucky Jesuit students will be able to live that dream through the UT Southwestern STARS summer research program.
On Thursday, March 27, UT Southwestern accepted...
For the 15th straight year, the Jesuit Medical Society will be hosting their medicine drive from January 13th-17th, a drive in which medicine, as well as medical supplies will be collected for the Medical Society’s annual Guatemala Mission Trip on March 19th. Ms. Jan Jones and Mr. Max von Schlehenried will take students and other volunteers along with them...
The Jesuit Medical Society kicked off this school year with a bang! It not only decided to stay true to its traditional club activities and goals, but also decided to incorporate many surprisingly new prescriptions and goals for its students. In addition, the Medical Society intends to continue helping students develop their profile of the graduate and represent the...
So how did you spend your summer? Inspecting the intestines of fruit flies? Analyzing the effects of vaccines? Digging for a solution to cancer?
Actually, three Jesuit students, Patrick Arraj '14, Trevor Johnson '14, and Mason Amelotte '14, respectively, accomplished just the above. Participants of the STARS program at UT Southwestern, a nationally renowned medical school with multiple nobel laureates,...
Donning their white lab coats, three rising Jesuit Seniors will participate in a fantastic research program at UT Southwestern Medical School called the STARS program (Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern). Under the program, students work one on one with a researcher from the prestigious UT Southwestern Medical Center and assist them in carrying out groundbreaking research. The...
The Jesuit Medical Society, which originated around 2000 courtesy of Mrs. Jan Jones (current freshmen biology teacher) and Mrs. Linda Messer (a former Jesuit teacher), organized its first mission trip in 2002, then to El Salvador. This first trip only happened due to the work of Dr. Michael Tolle ’82, a student of Mrs. Jones in 1978 who asked...
Smiling children bustle cheerfully throughout a bright, happy kindergarten classroom, laughing, making new friends, and playing with toys. One child sits by himself, staring at the ground, repetitively moving a truck back and forth. Efforts from the other children to interact with this lonesome child are spurned and rejected.
Most people have interacted with a person like this, an individual...
His fingers shaking, his muscles flexing, his eyeballs bulging out of their sockets, the student frantically picks up the last bottle of medicine at Walmart, finally achieving his last service credit for the year. But, is getting service credits really what the medicine drive is all about?
The 2013 Jesuit Medicine Drive has come along and Ms. Jan Jones and...
