Students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed their support for the March. This initiative was supported by The Friedman Brain Institute, The Tisch Cancer Institute, The Precision Immunology Institute, and The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
More than 60 medical and graduate students and faculty from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai participated in the March for Science New York City on Saturday, April 14—one of 175 satellite events held with the national march in Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by the Icahn School of Medicine, Columbia University, and New York University, activities featured “teach-ins” in Washington Square Park where members of the scientific community, including representatives from Mentoring in Neuroscience Discovery at Sinai, made their work tangible to the public. Prominent scholars—including Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai—spoke in advocacy for fact-based science. “Science is not political,” said Joshua Acklin, PhD candidate and student organizer. “We support the notion that evidence-based, peer-reviewed research should inform policy and should not be the subject of political debate itself. It is a matter of fact, not opinion.”