#  News & Events 

 



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##  BIG News 

 



  [### 2024 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipient from DMS

 ](/news/2024harold-m-weintraub-graduate-student-award-recipient-dms) March 04, 2024 

 Please join us in congratulating the DMS student who has received the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for 2024. Michelle Li is a G5 student in the Biomedical Informatics Program. For further information, please view the Fred Hutch News Release. 

 

 

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   [### Watch Live Stream of 2023 DMS Hooding Ceremony

 ](/news/watch-live-stream-2023-dms-hooding-ceremony) May 19, 2023 

 The 2023 DMS Hooding ceremonies will be live-streamed on YouTube. Thursday, May 25, 2023: Hooding Ceremony for 2023 graduates begins at 5:00pm. The video can be viewed by visiting our Commencement and Hooding page. Congratulations and Best Wishes to all... 

 

 

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   [### Student Profile of 2022 BIG graduate Eduardo Maury

 ](/news/student-profile-2022-big-graduate-eduardo-maury) May 05, 2022 

 Exploring the Brain BIG PhD grad Eduardo Maury is deciphering somatic mutations to better understand neurological disease. Read about the influence his neurosurgeon father had on his career, and the role Maury's mentors played in his growth as a scientist... 

 

 

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   [### BIG Program Welcomes 2021-2022 Class

 ](/news/big-program-welcomes-2021-2022-class) September 01, 2021 

 We were delighted to welcome our new entering class last week for an in-person orientation. Our cohort is 13 students this year. Our students have undergraduate degrees in computational biology, mathematics, statistics and data science, biomedical... 

 

 

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   [### BIG Program Welcomes 2020-2021 Class

 ](/news/big-program-welcomes-2020-2021-class) September 22, 2020 

 We would like to extend a very special welcome to our entering BIG class. From cities near and far, students joined together for this virtual greeting and orientation as we began the new academic year. With 14 students, it is the largest BIG cohort ever... 

 

 

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   [### BIG Student Launches Podcast

 ](/news/big-student-launches-podcast) July 28, 2020 

 BIG student Anika Gupta launched a new podcast: The Data Pulse. The Data Pulse dives into the growing role that data science plays in biotechnology and biomedical innovations, through conversations with veterans and rising stars at that intersection-... 

 

 

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