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Biomedical Communications Graduate Student Show 2010
South Campus Library
Opening Reception -- Friday, May 14
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Salon Awards from the 2009 Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Richmond, VA
Our faculty, students, and alumni took awards home from this year's AMI meeting See more... |
Medical Art Exhibit at the Texas Medical Association The Texas Medical Association just installed an exhibit, The Art of Observation From Cave Paintings to Computer Graphics, in the lobby of their headquarters in Austin.
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Collaboration with the Arts and Technology Program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
The Biomedical Communications graduate students will be taking animation classes through the Arts and Technology Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Read more... |
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Kenneth Coulter
Award of Excellence in Interactive Media: Instructional for Sepsis the Educational Game
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Roshni Nelson
Orville Parks Student Best of Show
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Award of Excellence in Student Editorial for Fertilization
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Suzanne Ghuzzi
Award of Merit in Student Editorial for All Men are Not Created Equal
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Kristen Bagnall
Award of Merit in Student Editorial for A Bright Future for Infertility
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Elizabeth C. Smith
Award of Merit in Student Editorial for Fertility Drugs: Are They Worth the Risks?
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Derek Wu
Award of Excellence in Student Interactive Media for Cellular Layers of the Retina
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Scott Weldon
Award of Merit in Instructional Color for Elephant Trunk Procedure for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair Utilizing the Trifurcated Graft Technique for Stage I and Endovascular Repair for Stage II
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Keith Kasnot
Award of Excellence in Advertising for Accuity Embolic Neuroprotection System
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Keith Kasnot
Award of Merit in Animation: Advertising, Marketing, Promotional for Pralatrexate: An Antifolate Designed to Accumulate in Cancer Cells
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Cynthia Turner
Ralph Sweet Best of Show
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Award of Excellence in Marketing/Promotional for Rapid Arc Peripheral Lung Tumor Cancer Treatment
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Award of Merit in Marketing/Promotional for Brachiotherapty Prostate Cancer Treatment
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Maya Chaphalkar, Joe Gorman, and Kevin Brennan
Illustrated Book Award for The Illustrated Atlas of the Human Body
  
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We welcome our 2009 incoming class of students: Sang Eun Cha, Alexandra Gordon, Jennie Swensen, Amanda Tomasikiewicz, and Kristin Yang.
It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of our wonderful student, Jessica Yeager. Jess was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome at age 15, and finally lost her battle with hemophilia on January 30 at age 27. Those of us whom she touched are infected forever with the inspiration of her optimism and  spirit as she fought through so many operations and crises following her dream of becoming a medical illustrator. She found her passion in children with bleeding disorders. Her thesis project, an interactive program, "My Amazing Blood" was presented at the National Hemophilia Foundation Conference this past November in Denver, and will soon be on the Foundation's website. She had planned a series of the programs, and our department will see that they are done. In her graduate school application she wrote "I feel very lucky to have found my true calling as a Medical Illustrator, as it allows me to blend my passion for art with my fascination for medicine, and to make a contribution to the medical community that has given me so much." She has made that contribution, and much more.
Jess received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She was chosen to give the Bachelor's Degree Candidate's Address at the commencement exercises. In that speech she mentioned two quotes that she had taped to her drafting table freshman year, the SVA motto, “To be good is not enough, when you dream of being great", and "Never, never, never give up." She was and she never did. Edward Albee gave the commencement address that day. He said that all his plays "confront being alive and how to behave with the awareness of death." Jess showed us how to be alive, and we will miss her.
She is survived by her mother Sally Yeager; her fathers Donald Yeager and Tom Sarosy; her nana Ann Cuevas; her fiancé, Thomas Marose; and her three dogs, Mona, Norman and Tito. The two organizations that she cared deeply for are Save One Life, www.saveonelife.net, and Make-A-Wish, www.wish.org.
Lew Calver
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The Texas Medical Association just installed an exhibit, The Art of Observation From Cave Paintings to Computer Graphics, in the lobby of their headquarters in Austin. http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=4
One case is devoted to Southwestern, showing among other things, the first director of medical illustration, Lewis Waters, and two of his drawings, A photo of Patricia N. ONeill receiving the worlds first degree of Master of Medical Art from Edward Henry Cary, M.D., LL.D., President, Southwestern Medical College, June3, 1947, and two pieces by Lew Calver. Two free standing cases contain four each of illustrations by Lew. The exhibit will be up for a year.
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| Alumni can attend lectures at UT Southwestern to acquire Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in the Biomedical category for CMI renewal. These lectures are educational experiences outside the AMI that meet the criteria for CEUs. Remember, You must submit information on a lecture to the AMI for approval to earn CEU credit. See lecture schedule... |
Alumna, Cynthia Turner, is featured in the Fall issue of "Illustration Voice," an online resource produced by Serbin Communications for illustrators.
( www.illustrationvoice.com ) Read the article...
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Two students received research grants from the Vesalius Trust for their thesis projects
Kristen Bagnall, A Parent Education Resource for Demonstration of the Process of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery with Subdural EEG Monitoring
Suzanne Ghuzzi, Neonatal Resuscitation: An Interactive Training Program For Health Professionals
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Or visit Richard's site directly at http://www.richardhowdy.com
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Phoebe Gloeckner, alumna of the Biomedical Communications Graduate Program at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Phoebe is an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. The piece shown is from graphic narrative for which she was awarded the fellowship. The story line of the narrative is about a Mexican girl murdered at the turn of this century in Ciudad Juarez, a major U.S.-Mexico border crossing adjacent to El Paso, Texas. http://www.art-design.umich.edu/news/?p=1027&aud=e&menucat=ne
The Biomedical Communications students will be taking animation classes through the Arts and Technology Program (atec.utdallas.edu)at UTD. Students will learn basic 3D modeling, lighting and animation skills. They will be able to incorporate these skills into various assignments and thesis projects within the Biomedical Communications Program.
The Arts and Technology Program (ATEC) has many collaborative efforts that are designed to explore and foster the convergence of computer science and engineering with creative arts and the humanities. ATEC prepares students for a wide range of current and future, as yet uninvented, careers that demand the ability to fuse visual images, verbal communication, creative thinking, and technological expertise.
At first it seems an odd fit: an artist working alongside a gamer, performance artist, programmer, journalist, designer, sound engineer. But it’s this combination of students, faculty, and their ideas that allow ATEC students to intuitively solve the problems of today while creating tomorrow.
Beyond merely a “multidisciplinary” or “interdisciplinary” scope, ATEC encourages the productive convergence of disparate fields and modes of thinking. It joins science with the humanities, creativity with technology, theory with practice, and learning with research. There are no maps showing the way, just students with diverse interests, talents, and a skewed way of looking at the ever-changing world. Students master emerging tools, form unexpected relationships, collaborate, and create the future.
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