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Visualizing Improved Public Health Access

Visualizing Improved Public Health Access

by lauries | Feb 4, 2025 | 5 Questions, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Elementary Education, Pre-Med, Public Health, Service, Wellness

Honors biomedical engineering students Shivani Koundinya, Ryan Rouse and Cade Kilambi have been working on a passion project that isn’t tied to a class or their undergraduate theses but is instead driven by a desire for community impact. The project, called Art Medic,...
Finding your Mist

Finding your Mist

by klw038 | Jun 30, 2017 | Honors College Study Abroad Grant, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics, Service, Service Learning, South Africa, Study Abroad, Uncategorized

Jacob Maestri is a rising senior math major from Fort Smith, Arkansas. He recently traveled to Cape Town, South Africa and on a hard, fog-cloaked climb up Table Mountain, found new insights on the journey, the people, and the experience.  After a short Uber yesterday,...

Snapshots from Belize

by | Mar 6, 2015 | Belize, College of Education and Health Professions, Service, Study Abroad

Last summer biochemistry major Roshni Patel (right) helped to launch an important new public health initiative in the U of A’s Faculty-Led Community Development program based in Dangriga, Belize. Roshni and other members of the health team partnered with the...

Building Hope in Uganda: 5 Questions for Mary Nell Patterson

by | Nov 25, 2014 | 5 Questions, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Service, Study Abroad

Mary Nell Patterson is a fourth-year landscape architecture student. Initially, she was a pre-nursing major, but after realizing that her fear of needles wasn’t going away anytime soon, she started to take notice of what she did love: art and the outdoors. Through her...

Beaucoups of Books: 5 Questions for Truman Scholar Cicely Shannon

by Nathan Smith | Aug 5, 2014 | 5 Questions, Books, Economics, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Sam M. Walton College of Business, Service

Senior economics major Cicely Shannon’s love for books began at age four, when she learned to read. She began sharing her passion for reading in fifth grade, when she created Bookoos* of Books reading circle, the first of several literacy programs she developed in her...

Report from Belize

by Nathan Smith | Jan 17, 2014 | Belize, Biochemistry, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Physics, Service, Study Abroad

Armin Mortazavi is a sophomore physics and biochemistry major who has already embarked on biophysics and membrane research at the University of Arkansas. A service learning trip to Belize last summer gave him some valuable lessons outside of the lab and classroom,...
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