Archive | April, 2011

Mental Health Care of Lancaster Refugees

Everyday millions of individuals face horrific human rights violations. It is estimated that roughly 1% of the world’s population have been displaced from their home country. Refugees are people who flee their country in order to escape conflict. A refugee is defined as a person whom “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for [...]

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F&M Classes that Change Perspectives: Drug Courts

  The new public health major is composed of some classes that have been at F&M for years. One in particular is one entitled “Problem Solving Courts: A Different World” taught by the Honorable Judge Ashworth.

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F&M: ONE Goal

ONE Goal   Recently, a group of students involved with The Human Rights Initiative were awarded $10,000 Davis Project for Peace for the ONE Goal Project. John Arnold, Jared Gorin, Rebecca Green, Mandi Tembo, and I will be traveling to South Africa this summer to launch the program at the Chris Campbell Soccer Field.

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When in Doubt, Use Google Docs!

A googol is an extremely large number consisting of a 1 with 100 zeros after it. Google is a misspelling of that very large number, that has turned into a very large internet powerhouse. “Googling” something has become synonymous with running an internet search, stealing the crown from services like Ask Jeeves and Yahoo. Of [...]

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F&M Classes that Change lives: Global Public Health

This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to study global public health in the United States and South Africa through F&M’s Global Public Health course. The ten-week intensive experience began in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As the class came together mid June, we spent four weeks learning about global public health. During our time in Lancaster, [...]

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