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At 12, a life-threatening disease left Nicole LaMont deaf. Today, she is a VA scientist. “You can do anything you want, just a little bit differently.”
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April is a STEM Scholar, president of the Alpha Kappa Upsilon chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, a mother, daughter, wife, and a non-traditional student at the age of 37. After changing her major three times from accounting to psychology and nutrition, her experiences have led her to pursue her goal of becoming a medical/clinical lab scientist and minoring as a veterinary technologist. She is graduating from Massasoit with an Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts Transfer – Science degree. Massasoit and my PTK chapter have taught me so many things, but most of all to use all the resources I can use in order to understand the concepts of the lessons that are crucial to continuing my path, said April. She hopes to one day open an animal-assisted therapy farm for individuals with mental health and development disorders. April has been accepted into the Medical Lab Science Program at the University of Maine Orono on a Flagship Merit Scholarship.
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Students enrolled in the program spend approximately eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, in clinical and didactic instruction in all areas of the RCLA clinical laboratory. Students are additionally assigned outside rotations to expose them to a variety of equipment and/or procedures not performed at RCLA. The following affiliates are used for these rotations:
Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas – teaching hospital with 211 beds in operation, the region’s only Level 1 trauma hospital, provides a wide variety of services.
Clinical Pathology Laboratories – large reference laboratory offering services to Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Employees over 1850 people at the 100,000 square foot main laboratory facility in Austin.
Before stepping foot into the clinical lab of Ascension Seton Hays Hospital in Kyle, Gilbert Swink sat fully clothed in personal protective equipment, including a mask and a face shield,