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Deadline nears to vote online for UNMC project, White House honor

If you haven’t already, take a minute (literally) to vote for a UNMC student project that is 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 be featured on mtvU and MTV Act.

Every vote counts

Cast your three votes for UNMC’s EMPOWER project by Saturday (March 3) at 11:59 p.m.. It takes less than a minute to help. 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.