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Amber Roach, one of our AH/YNL students just received the only Kentucky Campus Compact grant in the state and wrote the proposal for Big Brothers Big Sisters here in Murray. The grant is funded through the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Foundation which receives its funding from Kellogg. Amber is a great student and the AH/YNL Senior of the Year this year.
   

Dr Nancey France and Dr Kathy Farrell brought 15 CNS graduate students to the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist (NACNS) conference: Clinical Nurse Specialist: Leaders in Excellence in Atlanta, GA on March 5-8, 2008. Names of students attending are Shondell Hickson, Carol Murch, Deborah Welsch, Susan Wurth- Alumnus and CNS preceptor, Shelley Chandler, Elizabeth Petit, Amanda Gaudy. Rita Driver, Janie Arington, Lori Rushing, Anna Stewart, Sandra Taber, & Debbie Bray. Not pictured are Beth McCraw, Kristin Reid, & Robin Chappell
 

 


Natalie Elias received the $2000 Steckol Award.  She earned a B.S. degree in Communication Disorders from MSU in 2006 with a 4.00 GPA.  She will graduate in May, 2008 with a M.S. in Speech Language Pathology.  Natalie is a student with an outstanding professional promise. She has the aptitude, sensitivity, and personality to deal with the challenges of persons and families of persons with communication disorders. She has shown the commitment to distinguish herself as an undergraduate and now as a graduate scholar and clinician.  She is currently completing a clinical practicum at Murray Calloway County Hospital under the supervision of Cheryl Crouch, a MSU Alumni from the Division of Communication Disorders.
   

 
 
Rachel Fielder received a $2000 Bev Stanley Scholarship Award.  Rachel is a junior from Benton, KY who has an overall GPA of 4.00.  Rachel is a member of the MSU and national chapters of the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association and a student member of KYSHA.  She has a long history of community service which includes serving as the Director for fundraising for the MSU Rotaract Club, peer tutoring, and volunteering for UNICEF, Christmas Shoebox, and other service activities.  Rachel plans to attend the University of Kentucky to pursue her masters’ degree in speech language pathology and has long range plans for a Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science.