Match Day; $1.5M to Power of Music

March 19, 2024

On Match Day, Clare Dasilva (left) and Gabby Rodriguez (right, in blue sweater) congratulate Betty Tesfaye (center), who will be going to NYU for her residency in pediatrics. Scroll down for story and more photos. (Photo: Steve Zylius/UCI)

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Future physicians celebrate Match Day

Friday was Match Day at UCI (and other colleges across the country), an event at which soon-to-graduate medical students discover where they’ve been “matched” to serve their residencies. At UCI, 99 future physicians learned where they’ll go after earning their M.D. degrees in May. Seventy will stay in California, including 44 remaining in the UC system and 22 staying at UCI. The most popular specialty is internal medicine (20 students), followed by psychiatry (12) and pediatrics (nine).

Match Day at UCI - Student celebrates with family

Match dat at UCI - student celebrates with loved one

Nonprofit gives $1.5 million to Power of Music program

Richard Matthew (left), a professor of urban planning and public policy and director of the UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, in collaboration with Alec Glasser (center), founder and CEO of the Drake Gives. They are pictured with Dean Jon Gould.

A donation of $1.5 million from the Drake Gives will support a School of Social Ecology initiative that uses music to galvanize students, individuals and communities for social progress and well-being. The contribution will fuel the school’s new Power of Music program, led by Richard Matthew (left), a professor of urban planning and public policy and director of the UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, in collaboration with Alec Glasser (center), founder and CEO of the Drake Gives. They are pictured with Dean Jon Gould.

Cannabis and surgery don’t mix, doctor warns

As more states legalize marijuana, a UCI Health anesthesiologist warns of risks the drug poses for patients before and during surgery. Research suggests that a patient who smokes cannabis shortly before surgery is five times more likely to suffer a heart attack.

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Promoting happiness

Wednesday is International Happiness Day and it follows UCI’s first Happiness Week, which ran March 11-15 and saw over a dozen divisions and hundreds of students participating. Among the activities, 400 students from Professor Sarah Pressman’s positive psychology class helped spread joy via hopscotch, piñatas, bubble blowing and other happenings around campus.

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