Dean Pamela's Messages

The opinion is now universal among those who participated in my totally unscientific survey that we are more tired after eight hours of Zoom than we are after a 12 to 14-hour day doing other things. It could be fanny fatigue because we don’t get up to usher someone into our offices between meeting...

The college my husband Jim attended had an informal ten-foot rule (even way back then.) The rule was: if you approach another person within ten feet, greet him/her, speak and pass by with pleasantries. The obvious goal behind this rule was to reach out and connect with people. Sadly, our new ten-f...

It’s mid-April and spring is upon us – too early to plant the annuals of course, but warm enough to trigger the bulbs and flowering trees. Easter and Passover converged this weekend. This should be time to emerge from winter hibernation into the sunshine. It is also the time that our President, a fe...

Another week has gone by. My grandchildren who are in town, chauffeured by their parents, have driven by every public playground on the way to our house and found each one occupied. The best, unoccupied one, although 30 minutes away, is in my backyard. My husband and I watch from our window, and I ...

Day after day, it takes more than a village to keep our School of Medicine running smoothly. And in these uncommon times, our staff is keeping it all together, whether working on campus or remotely from home. We now have letters to explain why some of our wonderful essential staff are out of their ...

And so, it continues. The delivery people run to the porch and set the bags down even if you are at the door, and then hurry away. Gives a whole new meaning to Door Dash! However, in the grocery store, the lines place people only a shopping cart – or about four feet – apart, and the checkout lady is...

The punishing siege of COVID-19 continues and will be worse before it gets better. We all have become reacquainted with the quirks of our homes. We have now determined just how robust our internet connection really is, and we have sworn that, as soon as the stores reopen, we will acquire a newer, fa...

Yesterday was Match Day, though you might not have known it. There was no enormous congregation of families at the Tink, from infants to grandparents, no professors slipping in at noon to cheer on their mentees, no balloons, no reception, no measuring for cap and gown, no news crews getting sound bi...

The COVID-19 pandemic is moving fast and Ohio has responded with stiff measures to limit public interactions. We are hunkering down with our families and trying to sustain our critical research and education functions. For the most part, we have responded very well. Our graduate education has, for...

This tagline captures a great deal of the work of our School of Medicine. This week, these values were rewarded by our rise to #20 in medical school NIH research funding reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Biomedical Research rankings. Congratulations to all of our investigators!

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