Announcements

The Yale Review of Disability Experience is seeking submissions for their first print issue until March 1st. They will be accepting submissions for online publication on a rolling basis. The first issue will be published in the Spring (in April … Read more

As we struggle to enrich our lives and occupy our minds while we navigate these stressful times, many like myself have taken this opportunity to explore podcasts to feel connected with others, and in some ways distracted from the cacophony … Read more

Caroline Fryar, a fourth-year medical student at UNC, is taking the goals of HHIVE out of Greenlaw 524 and into the world. In 2010, Fryar served as an undergraduate member of HHIVE, and fondly remembers attending Grand Rounds events and … Read more

In a presentation titled “Disability Studies & Health Humanities,” Dr. Kym Weed examined the social construction of disability and how undertones of the eugenics movement exist in today’s COVID-19 emergency care rationing system. To begin her talk, Weed challenged the … Read more

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) welcomes submissions to the 39th annual William Carlos Williams poetry competition during the 2020-2021 academic year. The competition is open to students attending colleges of medicine or … Read more

Not long gone, and definitely not forgotten, Nick Allen completed his Master’s degree in UNC’s English Department’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture program in 2019 and thus concluded his role as HHIVE Lab Coordinator. Nick discovered HHIVE through his undergraduate thesis … Read more

Dr. Damon Tweedy’s Grand Rounds: “Reflections on Race and Medicine in the Year of COVID-19 and National Protests” “#BlackLivesMatter.” It is Instagrammed and retweeted, inscribed onto signs and roared at protests rippling across the nation. It is echoed everywhere yet … Read more