When You're Not Allowed to Wear Flip Flops or Sneakers on the Wards

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A Comic Approach to the Facts About Vaccines

Late last year, science cartoonist Maki Naro drew up this amazing comic outlining some basic facts about the history of vaccinations. Even if you are a vaccine expert, worth reading for the nice melding of art and science.

The Vet Students Probably Already Knew These

There are quite a few Pets of the UW MSTP, but here are some

things you may not have known about them. 

Video brought to you by Youtube. 

Trying to Socialize with Other Graduate Students

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Happy birthday Jason C.!

You continue to be an inspiration to all of us: between running a bazillion miles a week, inventing new radioablative devices, and playing the violin, you remind us all how much it's possible for an MD/PhD student to do. 

(And, by extension, how lazy we are and little we're actually doing, but you're so cool we don't hold that against you.)

Have a wonderful birthday, and enjoy this tasty-looking cake, chosen in part because nothing good comes up if you search for "liver AND pathology AND cake".  (Trust us.  We tried). 

Happy happy birthday Farsh!

Here's to a new year filled with exciting transitions, new opportunities, and, of course, hopefully lots and lots of soccer.  But is regular soccer too easy for you now?  Have you evolved to higher levels of sport?  If this is the case, for your birthday, the UW MSTP blog would like to offer you a new alternative:

Wrong-end-of-the-binoculars soccer: truly the sport of kings.

Happy birthday Laura S.!

Here's wishing you a successful second half of your M2 year and a triumphant return to research!

(Yes, that is a microscope cake with fruit fly cake pops.  And we are sure they are delicious.)