Selections from Fall 2018 Issue

  • Min Sun, Ode to Eiko

    If we met again in the afterlife, it would be as grandmother and granddaughter, rather than as professor and student…

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  • John Wang, Below the Williamsburg Bridge

    This photo was featured as the cover art for the Fall 2018 publication of Agora Magazine.

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  • Bianca Kapoor, Secret handshake

    As I turned the cold doorknob and entered the exam room, my ten-year-old patient quickly wiped away the tears on her face. Her father waved me in and happily introduced himself. My patient stood next to the desk, eyes red and quiet, as I sat down nervously…

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Agora • Fall 2018

Editor-in-Chief: Katie Grogan, DMH, MA

Managing Editor: Sasha Kruger, MS

Student Editors: Eli Cahan ‘20, Elizabeth Greenwald ‘19, Lizbeth Hu ‘19, Jenny Wang ‘18

Authors: Stephanie London, Nishanth Iyengar, Bianca Kapoor, Christopher Kuhner, Jenna Tauber, Allyson Alfonso, Erik Peterson, Rachel Pam Sarnoff, Isabel Robinson,

Artists: Ginny Bao, John Wang, Michael Sonson, Catherine Kulick, Mohammad Farooq, Kathleen Miao

Special thanks:

Alan Barnett, Alan Barnett Design
Victoria Dinsell, MD, Psychiatry Clerkship Director
Anthony Grieco, MD, Associate Dean for Alumni Relations & Medicine Clerkship Director
Michael Locurcio, MD, Core Medicine Clerkship Director
David Oshinsky, PhD, Faculty Co-Director, MSPHM
Michael Tanner, MD, Faculty Co-Director, MSPHM
Linda Tewksbury, MD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Agora 2018 was supported by the Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation, Inc.

Live Oak by Catherine Kulick