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We thought we'd drop you a line to let you know what's
been happening at the Center for Literature and
Medicine during the decade since the inception of the
Biomedical Humanities Program. Frankly, we can't
believe it's been that long. We've seen a fair bit of
change here and undoubtedly you have experienced more!
We want and need to hear about that.
As a
graduate of Hiram's official Center of Excellence, you
may want to know a bit about what we've been doing.
Did you know...
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The
Biomedical Humanities program has a permanent
faculty chair, the Herbert L.
and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical
Humanites?
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The
founding recipient of that Chair, Professor
Carol Donley, has begun
her retirement, and we have started raising funds to
establish a scholarship fund in her name?
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That
all students in our new nursing program will have
the opportunity to graduate with a minor in
Biomedical Humanities?
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We
are about to welcome our second cohort of
Accelerated Biomedical
Humanities students this August?
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The Literature and Medicine
book series is going gangbusters, with five
new titles in the works?
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That
there are three new programs of interest: Ethics
minor, Public Leadership minor, and the Creative
Writing Major?
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That
it might be time for you to take in more Medical
Humanities training as only Hiram can provide?
Consider participating in next year's
Summer Seminar Series.
We have
completed our challenge grant from the National
Endowment of the Humanities as of June 2006, and are
now generating income from $1 MM endowment. The
completion of the challenge means that we have the
opportunity to expand the number of visiting scholars
that partner with us to provide convocations, create
new courses for the three week terms, and team teach
with us. It also allows us to fund creative endeavors
such as the recent commissioning of Verb Ballets'
production of the short story Luis, written by
Dr. Richard Selzer.
This
Fall - we are in the process of planning a symposia
called Staging: Cancer and the Arts. We are
collaborating
with the Ethics, Writing, and Theater programs to link
Biomedical Humanities seminars to performance of
Wit (by Margaret Edson) and Sarah's Daughters
(by Jeff Nisker), and visits by Tom Batiuk (creator of
Funky Winkerbean), and playwright Eric Coble.
Hopefully this will give you some flavor of what's
been up with us. As we receive your feedback, look for
updates alumni information to appear on this website.
And as always, we'd love to see you!
Yours
sincerely,
Sandy
Madar & Colleen Fried
Co-Directors, Center for Literature,
Medicine and Biomedical Humanities |
