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Students go to Africa to help people affected by HIV and AIDS

Twelve Drury University students will have an eye opening and potentially life altering experience when they travel to South Africa over winter break. Supervised by Drs. Rachael Herrington and Jennifer Silva Brown, these students will visit Cape Town and work in orphanages and medical clinics helping children facing adversity and those in the community who have been affected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The students and two professors will leave December 28 and return January 16, 2013. Continue reading

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Six faculty members earn award for community engagement

Six Drury faculty members earned the inaugural President’s Award of Excellence for Community Engagement. Continue reading

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Drury’s Joplin Impact Project earns a research award for two students

Drury students Blake Herd and Paige Nichols won top honors in the Social/Behavioral Sciences division at the Missouri Academy of Science on April 14 at the University of Missouri. Continue reading

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Drury professor and students study coping strategies following Joplin tornado

The May 22 tornado that hit Joplin, Mo. killed 161 people, but it impacted thousands more physically and mentally. How the surviving victims dealt with the physical, mental and emotional stress in the aftermath of the tornado is the goal of the research conducted by Drury psychology professor Jennifer Silva Brown called the Joplin Impact Project. Continue reading

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Drury students study coping skills following Joplin tornado

Long before Extreme Makeover descended on Joplin, a group of seven Drury undergraduates and one psychology professor were in the community working on the emotional and mental impact of the tornado. Continue reading

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