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HMS Represents at 2026 Roxbury Road to Wellness
On September 12, HMS students and faculty joined in on a sunny Saturday for the Road to Wellness 5K Run/2-Mile Walk in Roxbury. A partnership between HoodFit, The Dimock Center, and the Boston Athletic Association, the Road to Wellness promotes a...
Four HMS faculty and staff take a selfie in front of some tents.

2026 Project Success Concludes
Project Success – a seven-week summer research program for high school juniors and seniors in Boston and Cambridge – concluded this August with a presentation ceremony in a packed Waterhouse Room in Gordon Hall. Lab members, friends, family, and...
The 2026 Project Success cohort of 8 students stand outside Gordon Hall on the steps.

2026 VRIP Concludes
On Thursday, July 23, 11 medical students presented their summer research projects during the closing ceremony of the 2026 Visiting Research Internship Program (VRIP). VRIP was established in 2009 as an eight-week mentored summer research program for...
The 2026 VRIP cohort stands in front of a surgical painting and display on the 5th floor of the Countway Library.

Opening Doors Series Highlights Important HMS Faculty
In 2025, the HMS Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) established Opening Doors – a series of conversations with HMS faculty who have made significant contributions to Harvard Medical School. By conversing with a former mentee or colleague...
Headshots and photos from various Opening Doors speakers and events.

Community Spotlight: Genesis Perez-Melara
Genesis, you have a unique experience - you first came to HMS as a 14-year-old to participate in the student-run HPREP program and then subsequently participated in OCCE’s Hinton AP Biology program and the Project Success high school program, and later...
Genesis Perez-Melara is wearing a black blouse and white coat. She is standing outside in front of a tree.

Honoring 2026 Recipients of the Excellence in Mentoring Awards
There wasn’t an empty seat in the room. Nearly 100 members of the HMS community joined the Excellence in Mentoring Awards recipients and their mentees for the 2026 awards ceremony on June 11. The Office for Culture and Community Engagement hosted the...
2026 Excellence in Mentoring Awards recipients line up for a photo in the Waterhouse Room. They are all holding their angular glass awards.

Honoring 2026 Recipients of the Dean’s Community Service Award
The Dean’s Community Service Award recognizes the entire Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine community – recognizing faculty, trainees, staff and students whose dedication and commitment to community service have made a positive...
Recipients of the 2026 Dean's Community Service Award sit in a classroom in Countway Library. There is a projector screen behind them showing additional recipients.

Giving back in our Mission Hill Neighborhood
On May 20th, OCCE’s Michelle Keenan joined six other Harvard Longwood Community members to pick up litter in the Mission Hill neighborhood (some volunteers pictured) .These ‘waste warriors’ battled the heat and the wind-strewn food packaging, paper, cans...
Michelle Keenan stands alongside four other volunteers outside the Kresge building. They are all holding clear trash bags filled with trash and four of the volunteers also have trash pickers.

2026 LFDP Conference - Day 3 (May 8)
The 2026 Leadership and Faculty Development Conference (LFDP) concluded with a career development training on “ How to Disagree Better .” Attended by HMS faculty, trainees and staff as well as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Policy and...
Julia Minson (left) has short brown hair is sitting behind a desk. Heather Sulejman (right) has long brown hair is wearing a maroon blouse.