� �PSG 202-27 �NOVEMBER GRANTS

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SOCIAL EVENTS REQUESTS

Event Overview

To establish a collaborative space and allow social networking between Veterinary History Club, Research Animal Medicine (RAM), and Animal Welfare & Ethics Club (AWEC)

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Veterinary History Club, Research Animal Medicine, and Animal Welfare & Ethics Collab

Event Overview

The purpose of this lunch is to promote community building and resource sharing amongst parenting students by providing an opportunity for students to gather together and discuss their experiences as parents and health professionals in training.

ISPC December Parent Lunch

Event Overview

The PASA winter banquet, also known as Policy Prom, is the largest gathering of Humphrey School students, faculty, and staff throughout the school year. Its primary goal is to build community by bringing as many people together to celebrate the hard work and dedication of those at the Humphrey School. Almost a year after a winter of heightened uncertainty, unrest, and grief, the 2026 winter banquet is especially designed to be an affirming space where Humphrey School community members of all identities can feel safe to be themselves.

Winter Banquet (Policy Prom)

Event Overview

The SNMA Mentor/Mentee Lunch will bring together medical student mentors and undergraduate or post-baccalaureate mentees participating in the 2026–2027 SNMA Mentorship Program. The program supports students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine by connecting them with medical students who can provide guidance, encouragement, and insight into the path to medical school.

The lunch will help participants establish mentoring relationships, build a supportive community, and identify concrete goals for the upcoming year. Mentees will have opportunities to discuss academic preparation, clinical and volunteer experiences, research, and the medical school application process. Mentors and mentees will leave with shared expectations, preferred communication methods, and a plan for their next meeting. Providing a meal will support an informal, welcoming environment where participants can get to know one another and ask questions.

Mentor x Mentee Lunch

Event Overview

The purpose of this event is to host a holiday event centered around giving back to our community through good works, charity and creativity. Holidays for Heroes is a celebratory event where students can write letters and cards to veterans, active service members, and health care workers. Our hope is to spread holiday spirit through community engagement among health professional students and by sending holiday mail across the country to service members and veterans, as well as gifting cards to local healthcare workers students encounter through their clinical or professional experience. This event also gives students an art-based outlet to relieve stress. This event aligns with our group mission because HSAAB is an interprofessional student group that inspires and enables our community to engage with art and with each other; we also highlight the impactful ways that art and science inform one another.

Holidays for Heroes

Event Overview

The Alpha Psi Veterinary Prom is designed to provide veterinary students with a dedicated opportunity to relax, connect, dress to the nines, and celebrate their shared experiences outside of the academic environment. Veterinary school is highly demanding, and students often have limited opportunities for extracurricular social engagement. This event serves as a meaningful mental health and community-building initiative by offering a safe, inclusive, and enjoyable space for students across all class years.

In addition to social and wellness goals, the event also creates a low-pressure professional networking opportunity. By partnering with veterinary hospitals and industry sponsors, students are able to make organic connections with professionals and organizations they may later engage with for externships, internships, employment, or mentorship.

Veterinary Prom

Event Overview

The end of the fall semester is one of the most demanding times for medical and dental students, with exams, clinical rotations, and long hours that leave little room for rest or community. The CMDA Christmas Party gives students a warm, low-pressure evening to celebrate the season together, reflect on the meaning of Christmas, and be reminded that they are part of a community that cares for them. The party also serves as a welcoming entry point for students who have not yet been involved in CMDA, and as a way to thank members, faculty, and mentors who have supported the chapter this year.

Goals

1. Community: Bring together students and faculty across medical and dental programs, and help them form new connections across years and disciplines.

2. Rest and encouragement: Give students a restful break from academic stress

3. Faith and meaning: Offer a short, optional time of reflection and worship centered on the Christmas story, in a way that is inviting to students at any point in their faith journey.

4. Gratitude: Publicly recognize faculty advisors, mentors, and student leaders for their contributions during the year.

CMDA Christmas Party

Event Overview

The Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) presents the Diwali Festival to build community, promote wellness, and foster cultural awareness within the medical school and broader health sciences campus. During this event, we will be present about the significance of the holiday, provide food, offer a couple of relevant Diwali activities, and generally providing a space where people can connect/take a break from classes. We want to create an inclusive environment for all students and faculty to connect across cohorts outside a clinical setting. We additionally want to provide an opportunity to share the traditions of Diwali with the campus community. As there will be first and second-year medical students at this event, it will also be an opportunity to facilitate informal mentorship between classes and faculty members.

Diwali

Event Overview

The goal of the event is to provide students with a hands-on experience related to the field of otolaryngology. It is a small field that many students do not know about entering in to medical school, so we want to give students early exposure to the field.

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ENT Skills Night

Event Overview

The purpose of this event is to provide medical students exposure to Otolaryngology, a smaller field that med students do not receive much exposure in the standard curriculum. Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to network, in an informal setting, with Dr. Ashok Jethwa, one of the head & neck surgery faculty at our institution.

Otolaryngology Dinner & Fold

Event Overview

Purpose: To provide pharmacy and other professional students with an opportunity to take a break from their academic responsibilities, relax, and connect with their peers before final exams. The event will create a welcoming environment where students can enjoy food, participate in relaxing activities, and focus on their well-being during a stressful time in the semester.

Goals:

Promote student wellness by providing an opportunity to relax and destress before final exams.

Encourage students to take a break from their academic responsibilities and prioritize their mental well-being.

Create a welcoming environment where students can socialize and build connections with their peers.

Increase student engagement with SNPhA and encourage participation in future events.

Destress Event

Event Overview

Purpose: To raise funds for SNPhA while providing pharmacy and other professional students with a fun and affordable opportunity to enjoy customized dirty sodas during their lunch break. The fundraiser will help support future SNPhA events, professional development opportunities, and community outreach initiatives.

Goals:

Raise funds to support future SNPhA events and initiatives.

Increase student awareness of SNPhA and encourage involvement in the organization.

Provide students with an affordable and enjoyable beverage option during their lunch break.

Create an opportunity for students to socialize and connect with their peers.

Dirty Soda Bar Fundraising Event

Event Overview

AMCC will host its Fall Cultural Gala on December 10, 2026, in the Great Hall at Coffman Memorial Union. The gala builds on the role our shared campus room plays throughout the year by giving graduate, professional, and undergraduate students a place to spend time together outside of class. Our goals are to help students meet people beyond their own programs and give student groups a chance to share their cultures with the broader campus community. Our proposed theme, “Passport to Culture,” gives students a way to start a conversation even if they arrive on their own.

Cultura Gala

ACADEMIC REQUESTS

Event Overview

During this event, we will provide veterinary services to community animals through preventative care and addressing any medical concerns. We will also be teaching veterinary students applicable skills towards their profession such as client communication, physical examinations, and creating a treatment plan.

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Little Earth Wellness Clinic

Event Overview

The event will focus on immediate dental implant placement, clinical decision-making, and the realities of practicing periodontics in a private-practice setting. Our purpose is to provide dental students with clinically relevant education that supplements the existing curriculum while offering valuable insight into the transition from academic training to professional practice. Our goals are to strengthen dental students' understanding of immediate implant therapy, expose them to evidence-based clinical reasoning and real-world treatment considerations, and foster meaningful engagement with an experienced periodontal specialist.

Periodontics Lunch & Learn with Dr. Shahir Malek

Event Overview

This educational lunch event will feature Dr. Shanti Narasimhan, Professor of Pediatrics and a Pediatric Cardiologist at the University of Minnesota, who has played an integral role in advancing congenital heart disease care, heart failure research, and innovative educational technologies. Dr. Shanti has also been a valuable collaborator and mentor to the LAUNCH program and the Visible Heart Lab.

Our primary goals are to:

Introduce medical students to the field of pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease.

Increase awareness of the lifelong care needs of patients with congenital heart disease and the importance of multidisciplinary, patient-centered care.

Showcase how emerging technologies, including virtual reality and three-dimensional visualization, are transforming medical education, patient education, and clinical care.

Highlight ongoing research opportunities within the University of Minnesota, including collaborations with the Visible Heart Lab.

Inspire students to explore careers in pediatric cardiology, congenital heart disease, and academic medicine while encouraging involvement with LAUNCH and related research initiatives.

LAUNCH Lunch & Learn

Event Overview

The purpose of this event is to provide medical students with hands-on experience and education about intrauterine device (IUD) insertion. This workshop will give students the opportunity to learn about different types of IUDs, MOAs, indications, contraindications, and steps involved in insertion.

IUD Insertion Workshop

Event Overview

Our goal is to create an event that is a meaningful introduction to the skills that Emergency Medicine physicians use in their careers. We plan to create an environment where medical students can learn these necessary skills while being able interact with and ask questions to practicing ER physicians. Our interest group has hosted this event for multiple years, including once already this semester, with high interest levels from students and success. This will be a second occurrence of the same event to allow those who weren't able to attend the first time.

EMIG Skills Night

Event Overview

The purpose and goal of this event is to expose OB/GYN-interested medical students to the subspecialties in the field.

OB/GYN Subspecialties Lunch & Learn

Event Overview

The purpose of this lunch lecture is to provide veterinary students with the chance to discuss field diagnosis and management of equine dental diseases and disorders. Dr. Wefel, DVM, DABVP from University of Minnesota’s West Metro Equine Practice will bring real cases from her time in equine ambulatory medicine to debrief with students in attendance. The event will also provide students with an opportunity to network with Dr. Wefel and further explore a career in equine ambulatory dental care.

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Equine Dentistry Cases with Dr. Wefel

Event Overview

The purpose of the event is to provide medical students with an opportunity to learn more about the field of anesthesiology and gain insight into the experiences of a practicing anesthesiologist. Dr. Tshilumba will discuss her path to becoming an anesthesiologist, her experiences throughout medical school and residency, and what it is like practicing Virginia, MN. Our goal is to help students better understand the specialty and learn the opportunities and challenges associated with practicing rural medicine.

Rural Anesthesia Q&A

Event Overview

Achieve feedback of how to improve Phillips Neighborhood Clinic with volunteers to ultimately present research too.

Focus Group

Event Overview

The purpose of this event is to expose medical students to the role of OB/GYN care in the landscape of global health & surgery in collaboration with the Global Surgery Student Group (GSSA)

OB/GYNs in Global Surgery

Event Overview

The purpose of this event is to showcase various common procedures that use ultrasound and give students an opportunity to practice these procedures. The goal of this event is to increase education around how ultrasound is used in the clinic and hospital, as well as increasing medical students' proficiency in ultrasound skills.

US Procedure Night

Event Overview

This event will be for medical students to practice surgical skills using constructed models and surgical instruments at the MSim Center. The purpose is for students to gain surgical skills via education from practicing residents and surgeons and to increase student interest in the field of surgery.

Surgery Skills Night

Event Overview

Many medical and dental students want to serve patients in under-resourced parts of the world, but they do not know where to start. They often face unanswered questions about safety, cost, scheduling, licensure, and whether a short-term trip can do real good rather than harm. This event introduces students to CMDA Global Health Outreach (GHO) trips and gives them direct access to Dr. Griffin, a dentist and senior CMDA leader, who can explain how these trips are organized and what they ask of participants.

CMDA Global Health Outreach Trip Opportunities for Medical and Dental Students

Event Overview

By providing these educational lunch and learns and engaging veterinary students to think through cases, SIRVS can continue to educate students on the common or unique cases we see on our trips as well as about community medicine and the barriers faced by many of our clients.

Fall Mega Rounds

Event Overview

Introduce students to common barriers to oral health care experienced by individuals with IDDs and emphasize the importance of providing individualized, accessible, and compassionate care.

Provide practical guidance and strategies for communicating with and treating patients with IDDs, particularly within the dental school clinical setting. Students will gain insight into adapting their approach to accommodate individual patient needs and create a positive clinical experience.

introduce students to opportunities to participate in Special Smiles and other community-based initiatives that serve individuals with IDDs. Encourage involvement in outreach activities that allow students to apply their developing clinical knowledge while contributing to improved oral health within the community.

Encourage professional growth and a commitment to inclusive care.

American Academy of Developmental Dentistry Lunch & Learn

Event Overview

The purpose of this Lunch & Learn is to increase awareness and understanding of pediatric dentistry residency and provide University of Minnesota School of Dentistry students with an opportunity to learn directly from current pediatric dentistry residents. This event will feature a panel of residents from the University of Minnesota and HCMC who will share their personal journeys into pediatric dentistry, their motivations for choosing the specialty, and their experiences throughout the residency application process.

The panelists will discuss what makes a competitive residency applicant, how dental students can prepare themselves throughout dental school, helpful tips for applying and interviewing, and what students can expect during pediatric dentistry residency. Residents will also share their experiences treating pediatric patients, interesting clinical cases, and reasons for choosing their respective residency programs.

Our goal is to help dental students feel more knowledgeable, prepared, and confident when considering pediatric dentistry as a future career. We also hope to encourage open conversations, mentorship, and connections between current residents and dental students across different class years, while further building awareness and interest in pediatric dentistry.

November Lunch & Learn, Graduate Pediatric Dentistry Student Panel

Event Overview

This event will bring multiple high-profile indigenous planners and policy actors from the Twin Cities together to share their work and perspectives on planning with a variety of planning and policy students from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. The Planning Student Organization is organizing the event, and we are inviting the other student groups within the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to come and bring their questions on topics pertinent to the panel's work. This event will increase student awareness of indigenous perspectives and work in the planning and policy space, and will give students a space to learn new approaches to issues in public affairs.

Indigenous Planning Panel

Event Overview

NELA is hosting Tommy Jensen, RD, Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Nutrition at UMN. He’s joining us to speak about his experience working as a sports dietitian, collaboration with other specialties, how to bring out the best in athletes, and what a day as a dietitian is like for him.

NELA November Lunch & Learn with Tommy Jensen, RD

Event Overview

The purpose of this event is to provide medical students exposure to head/neck oncology, a niche within otolaryngology that med students would not normally encounter through our normal curriculum. The field of head/neck oncology deals with the treatment of tumors/lesions in the most anatomically dense area of the human body. As such, we would like to give med students the opportunity to learn about the field from experts at our institution.

Head / Neck Oncology Lunch & Learn

Event Overview

ECEA plans to host a Dementia Friends viewing and dinner on November 23, 2026. The event will bring medical students together to learn about dementia and how to support people living with it, while providing an opportunity to connect with classmates who share an interest in caring for older adults.

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Dementia Friends Minnesota

Event Overview

ULink is a student organization that functions with the goal to connect medical students to community organizations. This lunch and learn will bring in clinicians who work at Face2Face, an organization that helps at risk youth in the Twin Cities get back on their feet. There will be 2 clinicians coming to the event, one is an OB/GYN and the other is a nurse, both who work directly with the youth that come to the Face2Face clinic seeking help. They will bring a presentation with them to talk about their roles and we will have time for a Q&A for the students after their talk is done.

Face2Face Lunch & Learn

SECRETARY OF GRANTS SIGNATURE PAGE

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• Digital Signature: Grace K Tamms

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• Date: 11/7/2026