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“It definitely feels good because I've been waiting to see if I got accepted for what feels like a while now,” says Brayden Pringle.
"I know how important it was for her to be able to work with students," says Michael Murray, PhD.
“This funding validates the importance of addressing mental health at both the student and educator levels,” says Jordon Beasley, PhD.
"It ties together everything we are focused on as family nurse practitioners like disease prevention and health promotion,” says Abigail Grandin.