In Print Photo by Justin Knight Focus: First Domino Falls in Touch Research Jaime García-Añoveros (left), David Corey, and their colleagues have demonstrated that a member of a new group of ion channels may mediate the sense of touch in mammals. Their characterization of the channel, which could be mechanically gated, may also speed discovery of the molecular complex that converts touch stimuli to nerve signals. BBS Bulletin HSTconnector MD-PhD Newsletter MedEd News Mentations On The Brain

Headlines Nurse Staffing Levels Directly Impact Patient Health and Survival Upcoming General Interest Symposium: Are You the Type to Save a Life? The HMS Type for Life Bone Marrow Transplant Education Day and Bone Marrow Tissue Typing Drive Presenters: David Biro, Author Robert Soiffer, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Edgar Milford, Brigham and Women's Hospital May 10-11 Free Oral Cancer Screenings to Be Given in Longwood, Fenway Neighborhoods May 11-12

Spotlight Photo by Steve Gilbert Minority Students Accepted to Class of '05 Revisit Campus Underrepresented minority students admitted to next year's entering class at the Medical and Dental Schools revisited campus at the end of April. Their long weekend went fast, with a stream of events and introductions to fellow students, faculty, curriculum, the schools, and the Boston area. Student Scene Archives Will Illuminate Harvard Women Physicians A banquet at Countway Library on April 5 announced the creation of the Archives for Women in Medicine to document the achievements of women physicians at Harvard and beyond. These growing collections are part of the library's Rare Books Department.   Call for Writers Are you a student and a natural writer with few outlets for your creative mind and journalistic eye? Consider writing for Focus and WebWeekly. Several of our veteran columnists will be graduating this year so we're looking for MD and PhD students to fill their vacancies. The job requires producing three to six columns a year for the Forum section of Focus and Student Scene section of WebWeekly. Candidates must be skilled and motivated writers though do not have to be previously published. The biweekly Focus goes out to 18,000 faculty and staff across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, and every issue of WebWeekly receives thousands of visitors. If interested, please contact editor Robert Neal, 432-0448 or e-mail rneal@hms.harvard.edu.

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