A UNMC student project has been named one of 15 national finalists in the White House’s Campus Champions of Change Challenge. The top five vote getters in the contest’s online polling will receive invitations to an event at the White House, and also will be featured on mtvU and MTV Act.
How you can help in mere seconds
Cast your three votes today for UNMC’s EMPOWER project. It takes less than a minute to help. The deadline for voting is Saturday, March 3rd at 11:59 p.m. You also can register your support by tweeting Jon Carson, White House director of public engagement at @joncarson44.
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UNMC’s entry is the EMPOWER project, which works to address the health-care disparities of women affected by domestic violence while also exposing students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, physical therapy and public health to its relevant issues.
Kirsten Foster, M2, is the latest student president of EMPOWER, which has been operating since 2008. The project is an undertaking of the Inter-Professional Service Learning Academy, College of Public Health.
“It would be huge for UNMC to get this kind of recognition,” said Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., dean of the College of Public Health. “Spread the word – it takes just a second to vote for UNMC.”