For the second year, the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center and the Office of Student Involvement (OSI) held the 2021 UC Merced Leadership Awards virtually. The April 30 event provided an opportunity for the center to acknowledge all student leadership witnessed by individuals at UC Merced and celebrate award recipients, including 21 individuals and four organizations.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo expands SNAP food initiative Food Pantry, Pipe Dream Archives In addition to the new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility, students facing food insecurity can turn to the Binghamton University Food Pantry for healthy meals.
Part of pre-pandemic plan to combat student hunger, aims to combat food insecurity due to COVID-19
April 19, 2021
On Oct. 16, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had been expanded to nearly 75,000 low-income college students.
SNAP supplements the food budget of low-income individuals and families so they can purchase healthy food. New York is also offering a shortened SNAP application for individuals on fixed incomes to encourage greater enrollment by older and disabled qualifying individuals. There is a permanent expansion of the program as well as a temporary expansion.
Students create free tutoring club to bridge gap between SU and local schools
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Julianna Mercado (top left), Tanya Mir (top right), Kate Loveland and Hunter Mirer (clockwise) began forming Upskill Education in October 2020 by recruiting members and reaching out to schools across the country.
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Hunter Mirer didn’t fully understand what attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was when he received his diagnosis in elementary school. His ADHD became a consistent issue in his education, and finding the right tutoring services proved to be too expensive. When he started studying at Syracuse University in 2019, he tried free tutoring but felt tutors didn’t understand his individual needs well enough.
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Every year, ambitious sophomores at FIU’s Honors College are given the distinctive opportunity of being considered for guaranteed admission at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM).
In addition to securing an acceptance of admission, the HWCOM Early Assurance Program assists students throughout their premedical planning by helping to define and broaden their academic interests and provide mentorship as the students explore and learn more about the medical profession.
This prestigious program has a less than 15 percent acceptance rate. This year, six students were selected for the fifth cohort. Among them are ER volunteers, members of various pre-health student organizations, research assistants and participants of physician shadowing programs.