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In scientific research, it’s thrilling to uncover something new, something never documented before. Just as thrilling is to win grant funding to keep that exploration going. Super-competitive, grants and fellowships are difficult to apply for and hard to get. It is always a coup to land one. But there’s something extra special about those first few wins. Just ask Amanda St. Paul and Keman Xu, doctoral candidates in the Biomedical Sciences program at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. They’re both on cloud nine, celebrating brand-new, highly prestigious fellowship awards for their research.

Amy J. Goldberg, MD, FACS, Interim Dean and George S. Peters, MD and Louise C. Peters Chair and Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Surgeon-in-Chief of Temple Health, joined Slate’s “What Next” podcast, where she called on the media to show photos of the bodies of shooting victims to help the public understand the damage that occurs from a weapon like an AR-15. Dr. Goldberg also described the programs she has co-created with Scott Charles, Trauma Outreach Manager at Temple University Hospital.

Amy J. Goldberg, MD, FACS, Interim Dean and George S. Peters, MD and Louise C. Peters Chair and Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School and Surgeon-in-Chief of Temple Health, joined NPR’s “Morning Edition” and MSNBC’s “The ReidOut with Joy Reid” to discuss gun violence and the shooting of 19 students and 2 teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.