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What is the Madison College Pow Wow?

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THIS WEEKEND!!!!

The 2018 Madison College Pow Wow will be held all day Saturday, May 5, in the Truax Redsten Gymnasium. Doors open to the public at 11 a.m. The Grand Entries are at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is $5. 

The Native American Student Association and United Common Ground are looking for volunteers to sign up in 3-hour shifts. If you are interested in volunteering, please click on the following link. At this site, volunteers can choose tasks and timeslots, which are broken up into three-hour increments. Volunteers receive a wrist band for free entry into the pow wow and an Indian taco after their shift.

Meet Julia Nepper, who earned a UW-Madison Ph.D. at 23

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Julia Nepper’s favorite thing about science is a little surprising.

“It’s OK to be wrong. Until you acknowledge what you don’t know, you cannot progress,” said the North Carolina native who, at age 23, received her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison last month.

That’s right; she’s a Ph.D. at 23.

Madison man is first Hmong-American to get an M.D.-Ph.D.

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Her became interested in helping people regain function after spending much of his childhood at Hmong refugee camps in Thailand. He was surrounded by people injured during the Vietnam War, in which the United States recruited Hmong soldiers, including Her’s father, to fight communist forces. The wounded included his uncle, who was paralyzed on one side of his body.

UW-Madison School of Nursing recruiting Native American students

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“Having nurses who are actually members of a community is really vital to addressing the great health disparity that actually exists in these communities,” said Dr. Audrey Tluczek, director of the recruitment program. Native American students are among the most under-represented on the UW-Madison campus.  The enrollment of Native American students in the UW-Madison School of Nursing is no different.

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Ahna Skop, PhD, DSc
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2426 Genetics
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-1593
skop@wisc.edu

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