She talked about the lessons that will come with time. Failure is a part of medicine. Treatments fail to work. Patients are human. Research budgets are cut.
Life is messy.
She ended with this thought. Student speakers for this year's commencement were Vasudha L. Bhavaraju for the medical school and graduate student Robin A. McCann. Degrees were conferred on 105 medical students and 23 graduate students. Student achievements Paul Nazemi, represented Penn State's College of Medicine at the 1999 National Student Research Forum, in Galveston, Texas, in April. The award was granted by the Lifeline Foundation of Manchester, Massachusetts.