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AY 2020-21 - Vol. 2
Happy New Year from Our Executive Dean
Academic Opportunities in the New Year
by Lynn Johnson Langer, Executive Dean

Dear Colleagues and Friends of FAES,
It is with joy and anticipation that I write to you in 2021. We start this new year with the anticipation that this year will improve. Despite the challenges of 2020 we all experienced, FAES Academic Programs have continued to thrive and grow. We continue to offer new and high-quality educational programming. Fortunately, we were well-positioned to transition to fully online course offerings last March and have been able to develop even more high-quality courses and workshops. In addition to advanced biomedical classes, we are also adding some more basic foundational courses such as our new three-week January intersession course, Introductory Coding Skills (BIOF 101). For those of you like myself, who managed to miss the opportunity to learn coding earlier in our education, FAES can now fix that. (I’m excited to start this class that begins on January 11.)

Other New Opportunities for the New Year:
  • You have asked for more credit transfer opportunities, so we are developing new partnerships with local universities. A great example builds on our partnership with the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Students can take up to half their courses for the master’s in data science from FAES.
  • We launched a new program, Prevailing Science that awards an interdisciplinary badge upon completion. This year's topic is "A Pandemic World".
  • We have a new fellowship with the National Institute of Aging, where the awardees have one hundred percent of the cost of their Master’s in...
Featured Courses & Workshops
This course is ideal for anyone interested in developing and strengthening their empathetic practice during patient interaction.

This course will provide an overview of topics that are important for the understanding of global health from an infectious disease perspective.
MATLAB® is a high-level language that enables you to quickly perform computation and visualization through easy-to-use programming constructs. This three-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the MATLAB® technical computing environment. 
This course, which will be presented entirely in virtual format this year, will focus on three types of Super Resolution Microscopy...
Upcoming Events & News
January 14, 2021, 12pm (EST) - RSVP
January 14, 2021, 4:30pm (EST) - RSVP
Q & A with a FAES Bioinformatics and Data Science Instructor
Intro:
James Anibal, B.S.
CRTA Research Fellow
National Cancer Institute, NIH

Background:
I studied computer science at Case Western Reserve University from 2016-2020 and in Spring 2020 I was accepted into the Computer Science PhD program at the University of Cambridge. I decided to spend a year working at the NIH because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so I will b starting my PhD in Fall 2021.
FAES: What course(s) and/or workshops will you be teaching in Spring 2021? 
JA: I will be teaching the following workshop and courses:

FAES: What are you most looking forward to for the upcoming semester?
JA: I am really looking forward to teaching the BIOF 101 course this January. I am thrilled that so
many people want to learn computer programming. I am also very excited that this course is
available to the general public... Continue Reading
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