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On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
Sarah Burns, a second-year masters student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at 51勛圖厙, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns a51勛圖厙 Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two 51勛圖厙 professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from 51勛圖厙s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in FairbanksA Homecoming Celebration
51勛圖厙 celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 1, with classic traditions such as the Bowman Cup 5K Race, Kiss on the K, Homecoming Parade and football game. This years Homecoming featured 51勛圖厙 alumnus Josh Cribbs, 10, as the Parade Grand Marshal. Heroic efforts by N51勛圖厙 Student Earns National Attention for Research about Youth Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo
51勛圖厙 global communication studies graduate student Daniel Sochas research on a non-profit organizations efforts to support youth education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently caught the attention of National Public Radio (NPR). In May, Socha traveled to the DRC to study and report on Project Kirotshe, a non-profit that provides funding for youth in the village of Kirotshe and surrounding areas to attend school.
Sochas travel was funded through a fellowship by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He was one of only 31 students nationwide to receive a fellowship to complete an international reporting assignment; the center provides funding for students to report on international issues as part of the centers Campus Consortium educational initiative. One of the stories Socha developed for his reporting assignment was published on .
It was awesome to see my article on NPRs website, Socha said. To see my words and to know that I did that I wrote that was amazing.