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CPH students awarded scholarships for study abroad

Published on July 2, 2024

Four CPH undergraduate students have been awarded scholarships to study or intern abroad.

The Dr. Ken Magid Scholarship, a fund that was established in 2022 by the late Linda Baker (BA English ‘68) in memory of her former mentor, author and child behaviorist Dr. Kenneth Magid, was awarded to:

  • Ekhlas Khalil, a fourth-year student majoring in public health with a minor in social justice from Iowa City, Iowa. Khalil is participating in the SIT Morocco Human Rights, Social Justice & Cultural Transformation Internship program in Rabat, Morocco.
  • Sebastian Smith, a fourth-year student majoring in public health from Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Smith is participating in the IES internships program in Vienna, Austria.
  • Audrey Wichmann, a third-year student majoring in public health on the pre-medicine track from Saint Louis, Missouri. Wilson is participating in the IES internships program in Rome, Italy.
  • Shahd Ibrahim was awarded a Dr. Ken Magid Scholarship and a Leona Zaharis Scholarship, a fund that was established in 2022 by Cathy Zaharis (BBA finance ’82) in memory of her mother. Ibrahim is a fourth-year student majoring in public health with a minor in Arabic from Puyallup, Washington. She will participate in the SIT Jordan Refugees, Health, and Humanitarian Action program in Amman, Jordan.

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