Going Far Away Sometimes Has Benefits Close to Home: What We Learned in Malawi and Samoa
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As UMB President Dr. Jay Perman said when hosting the University System of Maryland Board of Regents last spring, “I know for a fact that the U.S. hasn’t cornered the market on good ideas. People ask why go halfway around the world when you can see terrible devastation halfway around your block? The answer is hundreds of students and faculty who tell me how they’re taking a lesson they learned abroad and applying it to an intractable problem here at home.”
Two students who did just that - Carey School of Law student Suhani Chitalia and School of Medicine's Dr. Michael Sikorski - echoed Perman’s remarks to the regents that day.