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Portrait of Dean Randy Diehl.

Looking to a Bright Future

April 12, 2019 by Randy Diehl

The focus on brain health in this issue of Life & Letters is particularly compelling because our researchers are on the cusp of making dramatic breakthroughs in mental health research, cognitive neuroscience and in other areas that affect the lives of so many. What excites me about this research is its “translational” quality — our […]

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Sick: The Poetics of Modern Health Care

January 18, 2018 by Victoria Davis

…And all the while, I kept thinking about that great old Whitman  poem… ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.’I…I don’t know it.Anyway…Well, can you recite it?Pathetically enough, I could. With some encouragement from Walt, Gale continues:When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts […]

Surreal illustration of a church in Austin amid a neighborhood. A ghostly mist floats above the church and into the grey sky. The apparition is in the shape of a profile of an African-American’s face.

Leaving Home: Austin’s Declining African American Population

November 21, 2016 by Victoria Davis

In December of 2015, author and former Austin resident Ellen Sweets wrote a farewell letter to Austin that was published in TribTalk: Ever since I decided to leave Austin, I’ve tried to write a farewell devoid of anger and frustration, and every time I’ve had to move on to writing something else. A Facebook post. […]

close up of lab coat with Dell Medical School logo

First Class: Rethinking Health Care Through the Liberal Arts

November 18, 2016 by Emily Nielsen

The doors of the Dell Medical School have opened for its first class of future doctors, and they are on a mission to get the training they need to make a difference in the lives of future patients, their communities and even medicine itself. Of the 50 members in the school’s inaugural class, three graduated […]

A simple drawing of the Austin skyline. A large doctor's stethoscope looms in front of the skyline bracketing the words, "Keeping A Pulse on Population Health."

Keeping A Pulse On Population Health

November 21, 2014 by Sarah Muthler

A few years ago, a Plan II Honors student in Marc Musick’s sociology lecture came to him with a question. Musick had been talking about the shortage of doctors in rural and inner city areas. The student had grown up in the Rio Grande Valley and hoped to go on to medical school. Why, he […]

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