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A story from WINK News highlights Immokalee High School senior Jacqueline Perez and her involvement with the College of Medicine's Science Students Together Reaching Instructional Diversity and Excellence (SSTRIDE) program. SSTRIDE provides rural-minority students with in-school mentoring and real world experience to students in Immokalee and other areas across Florida. Perez wants to be the first of her family to go to college, and to become a doctor.

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The medical school's 15th graduating class crossed the stage and grabbed the diploma of their dreams on Saturday, May 18. The class included 113 new M.D.s and 13 members of this year's Bridge class who received their masters degrees.

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The African-American Alzheimer's Caregiver Training Conference is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 29 at the Old West Enrichment Center in Tallahassee. The free Saturday conference will include presentations, breakout groups, and caregiver and community resource panel discussions. The conference is hosted by the ACTS2 Project based at the FSU College of Medicine.

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Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of Florida State University and dean of its College of Law, died suddenly Monday afternoon. D'Alemberte is considered one of Florida's most iconic leaders and a legal scholar whose influence was international. During his time as president, in 2000, the FSU College of Medicine was established as the first new medical school in the nation in more than 20 years.

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Leon County Commissioner Mary Ann Lindley wrote a letter to the editor about the College of Medicine's new PrimaryHealth center established to meet community health needs.

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The U.S. government has begun providing long-distance video counseling to teens housed at the country's largest child migrant detention center in Homestead, Florida, which has drawn mixed reactions from mental health experts and human rights advocates. Elena Reyes, director of the College of Medicine's Center for Child Stress & Health, comments on the use of long-distance counseling in remote locations where providers aren't easily accessible.