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Campus News LC AHEC NEW OFFICE The Lowcountry Area Health Education Center (LC AHEC) has moved to 302 Medical Park Drive, Suite 110, Walterboro. For information, call 782-5052 or visit http://www.lcahec.com/aboutlcahec.html. MEDICAL LANGUAGE COURSES Basic I  and Basic II  Spanish courses  are being held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through May 2 in the Education Center/Library Building. For information, call  792-2156. An Advanced Spanish Course will  be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. beginning April 25 in Room 107 of the Education Center/Library Building. A Basic Portuguese Course will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Monday from  April 30 through June 4 in Room 102 Education Center/Library Building. A minimum of six students per class. To register, visit http://www.Bilingo.org and download class registration forms. Complete the form and bring it to the first day of class. Course fees are $95 plus $15 for the book. For information, contact Rosalyna Toth at 327-1111, Marcela Escobar at 797-1888, or Rebeca Mueller at 792-2156. WOMEN SCHOLARS' INITIATIVE The Women Scholars' Initiative is sponsoring a spring colloquium at 4 p.m. April 5 in Room A105 of the College of Health Professions. Guest speaker, Lynn Weber, Ph.D., professor and director of women's studies at the University of South Carolina, will present, “Advancing Women in Academe: The Promise and the Practice.” The seminar is open to all students, faculty and staff. A reception will follow. E-mail Kelly Ferderigos at ferderi@musc.edu. WARING LIBRARY The Waring Library Society will host the Joseph I. Waring Lecture and Annual Meeting at 5:30 p.m. April 12 in the Basic Science Building auditorium. Michael McVaugh, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, will present his talk, “Medieval Surgery: One Could Do Worse.” McVaugh studies the history of medicine and science from the middle ages to the late 17th century and teaches courses in medieval history, the Scientific Revolution, classical science (1700 to 1950), and early modern medicine (1500 to 1700). The lecture is free and open to the public. Call 792-2288 or visit http://waring.library.musc.edu/page.php?id=951. HCC hosts student, postdoctoral fellow retreat Hollings Cancer Center, Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program (CII), hosted the first graduate student and postdoctoral fellow spring retreat in Hilton Head during the first weekend in March.   Students from nine HCC labs presented talks and more than 14 CII members, consisting of faculty from a multitude of MUSC departments, were present. This event afforded the younger graduate students a venue to showcase their research while also fine tuning presentation skills prior to the beginning of the formal spring meetings. The retreat provided the senior graduate students an opportunity to share their science with a diverse faculty audience, while helping fellow peers hone their presentation skills.   “The retreat was a great success,” said Michael Nishimura, Ph.D., the CII program leader. “I look forward to making this an annual event for CII faculty and their students.”   In an effort to acknowledge the quality of the presentations, the students were evaluated by the session chairs and the following awards were given: Jennifer Mulligan, from the lab of Rita Young, Ph.D., won a $200 prize for the best presentation by a senior student (meaning all postdocs and any graduate student with more than one year in their lab). Amir Alkhami, from the lab of David Cole, M.D.,  won a $200 prize for the best presentation by a junior graduate student (meaning less than one year in their lab). And Juan Varela from the lab of Steve Tomlinson, Ph.D., won a $350 prize for the best overall presentation.   “The success of this retreat would not have been possible without the support of HCC, the commitment of the CII faculty members and the work shown by the graduate student and postdoc presenters,” said Nishimura.

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