Eugenia Edmonds receives Paul Ambrose Scholars Fellowship

For the first time, a UNECOM student has been awarded the Paul Ambrose Scholars Fellowship.  Eugenia Edmonds, MS I, recently received the fellowship from the Paul Ambrose Scholars Program, which exposes health professions students to influential public health professionals and prepares them to be leaders in addressing population health challenges at the national and community level.

Included in the honor is a scholarship to attend a leadership symposium in Washington, D.C. and conduct a community-based health education project at the recipient’s institution. Edmonds’ project is to research the issue of hand hygiene for nursing-home residents by living the life of an elder in a nursing home for two weeks. She will participate in the “Learning by Living Project” that was developed by Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., Department of Geriatric Medicine, who is Edmonds’ UNECOM sponsor.  While living in the nursing home 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Edmonds will be given a diagnosis and will receive standard procedures of care, while researching hand hygiene by applying ethnographic research methods.

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.