Master of Education, Professional Studies - 13 Twenty students graduated summa cum laude; 42 students magna cum laude, and 47 students cum laude. Awards were presented to the following: The BYARS MEDAL IN SCIENCE is awarded to the graduating senior who has compiled the most outstanding academic record in the sciences - Emily Hill, Chemistry and Biology, Bland, Va. The ELEANOR GIBSON VIA SCIENCE AWARD recognizes a female candidate for the Bachelor of Science degree for marked achievement and unusual promise for future service and includes a cash stipend - Madison Jackson, Math and Physics, Guilford, NY. The SENIOR SERVICE AWARD is bestowed by vote of the faculty upon a member of the senior class in recognition of unusual and distinctive service to Emory & Henry College - Isabella McCall, Sociology, Geography, Religion and History, Meadowview, Va.
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Anti-Immigrant Hate Snarls the South’s Vaccine Rollout Kaiser Health News
By Sarah Varney, KHN
In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community.
In 2018, federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in Morristown, a manufacturing hub in the Tennessee Valley, and detained nearly 100 workers they suspected of being in the country illegally. In the weeks that followed, scores of immigrant families who had found work in the meat-processing plants dotting broader Hamblen County scrambled to find sanctuary in churches and scrupulously avoided seeking medical care.
The reason? Immigration agents were staking out clinics.
Researcher receives grant to study poverty-health connection in primary care delivery
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is the principal investigator of a
$298,368 grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to examine whether health outcomes for low-income individuals will improve if primary care delivery focuses not only on physical and mental health, but also on the effects of poverty.
Dr. White-Means will lead a team for the 18-month project to test how an established model of care, Transition to Success (TTS), which focuses on mental health, physical health, and poverty and its consequences, impacts health care delivery and outcomes for patients of