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Student pursues dream through
hands-on learning at home, abroad |
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by Gladys Clemente
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Kate Neuhausen bathes a newborn she delivered as a midwife’s
apprentice last year in Ecuador. |
By Anne Bromley
While
a third-year student, Kate Neuhausen helped a midwife in Ecuador
bring babies into the world.
Neuhausen
was surprised when Gladys Clemente, to whom she was apprenticed,
said she could “catch” the babies. And she was amazed
that several women in the South American village where she stayed
for a month subsequently embraced her as kin, godmother to their
children.
After
she returned to U.Va. for her final year, Neuhausen worked with
the local Spanish-speaking immigrant community as a health educator,
part of the Rural Health Outreach Program, a community organization
in Nelson County. She also helped create and teach peer-training
programs in basic health care, domestic violence and HIV education.
At U.Va., she organized a women’s health festival on Grounds
in February, as well as the Women’s Center’s speaker series
this year on the broader topic of women in the international arena.
Now
Neuhausen, an Echols Scholar, will receive a bachelor of arts degree
in her self-designed major, international women’s health. And
she’s gained something more from five semesters of having various
roles at the Women’s Center: “the confidence to become
whom I dreamed of becoming.” Full
story.
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Bond, Morse, Terry win 2003 Sullivan
Awards |
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Photo
by Andrew Shurtleff
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| Michelle
Morse (left) and Andrew Bond are the student recipients of the
Sullivan Award, given for excellence of character and service
to others. |
Bond, Morse, Terry win 2003 Sullivan
Awards
By Charlotte Crystal
Mentoring
is the theme that runs through the lives of this year’s three
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award winners: fourth-year students Michelle
Morse and Andrew Bond, and Sylvia Terry, associate dean of U.Va.’s
Office of African-American Affairs. They will be honored at Valediction
Exercises on May 17.
An
Echols and Holland scholar, Morse, 21, came to U.Va. from Philadelphia.
A French major, she completed the requirements for medical school
while making the dean’s list every semester. She was recently
inducted into the Raven Society and Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society.
She
has taken advantage of internship and externship opportunities in
medicine, including a research project funded by the National Institutes
of Health at the Duke University Medical Center, and in Nice, France,
studying French and completing an internship in pediatric surgery.
Full story.
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