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Want to travel to Greece? Meet the trio behind Greece’s top family travel company, Kids Love Greece: Katerina Makatouni, Maria Giannouli and Maria Tsigoni, who have been friends since they were kids. They grew up together on Crete, the largest island in Greece, and now they have kids themselves.

Four first-year students in the professional program at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy earned Marcus Elvis Taylor Memorial Medals, the university’s highest academic award, this spring.

Fewer than 1% of all Ole Miss students earn the award annually, and honorees must have a 3.9 GPA or higher. This year, some 3.5% of eligible pharmacy students were awarded Taylor Medals.

For Aishwarya Surendran ’25, the most memorable part of spring break was working at a vision screening station in Honduras, where she helped a little girl pick out a pair of pink glasses.

“We brought hundreds of pairs of glasses with different designs and prescriptions with us, and we went digging through the collection to find a pair for her,” Surendran said.

Surendran was among 21 members of the Brandeis chapter of the Global Medical Brigades who headed to Honduras to provide support to doctors and other medical service workers in February

Students in Greg Schmidt’s marketing principles classes recently served as business consultants to entrepreneurs in Honduras through Global Brigades, an international non-profit organization that collaborates with communities to achieve health and economic goals.

President José Luis Cruz Rivera presented the President’s Prize, Gold Axe awards and the Distinguished Senior awards to students at a ceremony on April 10, honoring their hard work and accomplishments during their careers at NAU.

ETSU’s Global Medical Brigades is raising money in hopes of going to Panama to provide healthcare to those in need.

This month, the Global Medical Brigades (GMB) chapter at UCCS is entering their final stages of fundraising for their upcoming trip abroad to Guatemala, where students will provide medical aid and health education to underserved individuals in the community.

Global Medical Brigades has partnered with Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin for a pair of blood drives in honor of late College of Nursing instructor Kit Stevic. The blood drives will take place on Wednesday, March 22, from noon to 6 p.m. and Friday, March 31, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the AMU.

The Global Brigades organization aims to promote sustainable development in rural Central America through a holistic model organized around development of sustainable health systems, of water and sanitation infrastructure, and of economic systems.