This blog post is about: Every year, the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) Symposium takes place on the Friday before classes officially start. And each year, different fields within the College of Veterinary Medicine take turns organizing and hosting the event. This year, the Department of Population Medicine hosted the event, choosing the overarching theme of “Medical Frontiers: Turning Data into Insight.” The theme was first introduced to the audience by Dr. Renata Ivanek, a faculty presenter. Ivanek stated, “Data is only valuable if we can translate it into usable insight,” setting the theme for the remainder of the symposium.