BME News Highlights
Student HighlightsFebruary 25, 2008 BME undergrad on USA Today College Academic First TeamCarmen Kut, a senior biomedical engineering major, is one of only 20 students from around the country (and one of two Hopkins students) who were chosen for USA Today's 17th annual All-USA College Academic First Team, which recognizes young people for academic excellence and community service.
Kut is founder and president of Educational Perspectives, an international student volunteer group dedicated to providing community-based preventive health care and HIV/AIDS education worldwide. EP has become an international movement, with eight chapters and 600 volunteers in five countries on three continents: the United States, Canada, Tanzania, India, China and Hong Kong. Her local efforts include delivering hygiene and home safety programs to refugee children and elderly people in Baltimore. She also founded and organized the Johns Hopkins Student Research Group, which promotes cross-university collaborations by matching the internship and research needs of JHU students and faculty.
Biomedical Engineering Professor Aleksander S. Popel calls Kut "highly and genuinely motivated" and praises her for being a "compassionate individual with a sense of obligation to society."
Gazette article: http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/18feb08/18usat.html
USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-02-13-college-allstars_N.htm
Posted: February 25, 2008
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