HTH grad student in the field: Alex Bozzette, Tanzania

Alex Bozzette (HTH '08) and Deus Cosmos

Alex Bozzette is interested in medicine, politics and travel.  He was part of the first HTH African Bushmeat Expedition.  As a rising senior at Georgetown University Alex decided to travel around the world studying Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB).  He is keeping a fantastic blog about his discoveries which are medical, cultural, geographic, and all very interesting.  Pictured above is Deus Cosmos, Roots & Shoots leader and founder of the Rafiki Foundation.  Deus visited us at HTH in 2008 and we later met up with him in his homeland, Tanzania.

Down from the mountain, ready to return .

Dr. Vavra and Dr. Wilson collect ants in the rainforest of Mt. Gorongosa.

Amoeba – The Biology Punk Music Video

HTH Biology student Basile Journet in a scene from "Amoeba."

What better way to begin a lesson in cell biology than watching a biology punk music video?  Here is an instant cytology classic.  It was written, shot, acted, edited, and produced by HTH biology student Basile Journet….. “Amoeba.”

HTH grad student from the field, Amber Moore, N.I.H.

Amber Moore (HTH '06) presenting her research at the annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation

Amber Moore gained some experience in biomedical science as an HTH intern at the VA Hospital and the Salk Institute.  After graduating from Bryn Mawr Amber has been doing cancer research at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.   Soon she will be off to work with  Dr. Hiroaki Mitsuya in Japan doing research on HIV/AIDS.