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  UH Medical Students Making a Difference as Albert Schweitzer Fellows

  Four University of Houston medical students were selected for the 2022-23 class of the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a year-long service-learning program focused on addressing the unmet health needs of underserved communities.

  The UH Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine fellows are Breanna Chachere and Zikora Stephens from the Class of 2024, as well as Taylor Jackson and Pelumi Oloyede from the Class of 2025. Their projects tackle a broad spectrum of health issues – from maternal and infant mortality to loneliness and social isolation among the elderly in the Houston-Galveston area.

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  New UH Program Helps Third Ward Students Build STEM Skills

  Students from Jack Yates High School in Houston's Third Ward are researching hypertension, breast cancer, the spleen, and more during an innovation new summer program at the University of Houston. The STEM Research Inquiry Summer Experience (STEM RISE) aims to combat the underrepresentation of people of color working in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

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  Collaborating to Conquer Loneliness Amid Pandemic

  The COVID-19 pandemic has made two things abundantly clear: While prevention and management techniques are well-intentioned and successful, social distancing strategies can have severe consequences for older persons who are already at risk for the disease; and university students have had fewer opportunities to learn in traditional settings. Bridging those two paradigms is a collaboration between the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, UH College of Nursing and Fertitta Family College of Medicine to mitigate the pandemic’s unexpected consequences in Houston by connecting older persons in the Houston area with UH students in both colleges. 

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