2008 OSURA Scholarships

•  Monica Juarez-Hernandez, ($1000) a native of Mexico, graduates this year with a degree in Human Development and Family Science. She will soon begin studies toward a second degree, in Health Care Administrtion. She has worked as assistant activity director at the Grace Center for Adult Day Care in Corvallis and as a youth nutritionist intern for the OSU Extension Service. “One of the reasons I decided to study gerontology,” she wrote in her application essay, “is to remember that seniors in our society are often those we leave behind.”

•  Chelsea Smith, ($1000) a junior in Pre-Pharmacy whose home is Redding, California. She has volunteered at the Heartland Humane Society and at an elementary school and a local pharmacy in California. The latter placement showed her how pharmacists and technicians interact with older patients and affect their lives just by helping them understand the medications they are given. “The future of pharmacy should incorporate more aspects of healthier living,” she wrote.