It is not a theoretical exercise, it has immediate practical application. Slater noted that the nine separate projects by last summer s participants were all put to use in the classroom, in the SACS self-study or as sources on the World Wide Web. Your ideas are important, they don t just get stuck on a shelf somewhere, Slater said. The most important thing you can give to anyone is your ideas, said Low, an active participant in these summer projects. We also want you to have fun.
Participants bring a variety of motivations and interests to the project.
As a pharmacist, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences student Fariba Behbod has been involved in community outreach projects. I want to know how to prevent problems instead of having to deal with them in the hospital. Alan Wells, a doctoral student in the School of Public Health, wants to find ways to build greater concern for health care access and equity issues among clinicians. So, public education is an important goal. He has volunteered at oral hygiene clinics at an elementary school and a shelter and was amazed that some children 8 or 9 years old did not know how to brush their teeth.