Title: Preparing and Applying to Pharmacy School

Description: Join us for an engaging talk with Dr. Thomas TenHoeve, Associate Dean at The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. Topics to be covered include: • Top 10 reasons to pursue a PharmD career • Careers options and earnings potential for PharmD • Prerequisite courses and admissions requirements • Pharmacy school interview process

Title: SNMA MAPS-Minority Association of Pre-medical Students Open House

Description: Join Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students (MAPS) for its first official event of the semester. Learn about shadowing, mentoring, research, and academic opportunities that will benefit you greatly as pre-medical students. As the oldest and largest pre-medical club, our events will provide you the support you need to get through the four long years at Hunter, and attendance of our events will give you credit and hours that are required. We will be serving a continental breakfast.

Title: Doctor Speakers Series: Dr. Colleen Thurman, DVM

Description: Colleen Thurman is a second year resident at NYU and Regeneron in laboratory animal medicine. She completed her veterinary and master's education at Tufts University in Grafton Massachusetts in 2016. Before attending veterinary school, she worked in private practice as a veterinary assistant at both a small animal practice and a feline only practice in her hometown of Houston, Texas. Prior to that, she graduated from Cornell University with Bachelor's degrees in Biology and Spanish. She originally thought she wanted to pursue human medicine, but discovered a passion for veterinary medicine, particularly laboratory animal medicine, while working through the pre-veterinary curriculum and participating in undergraduate research in a lab doing studies on stem cell dynamics in mice.