The Sophomores-Serve Program

The opportunity to be a part of the Sophomores-Serve program is one of the most exciting that I have encountered. As someone anticipating a career in medicine I am very interested in integrating science and community service. My academic experience thus far has centered on lectures where it can be hard to take what is being taught and apply it to the outside world. With this program, I believe I will be able to not only learn about something I am interested in, the food environment, but also improve my ability to practically use my knowledge to improve the surrounding world. Besides providing an amazing opportunity to engage with the community, the Sophomores-Serve program is exciting to me it combines two topics that I am genuinely interested
in: science and public policy. Science moves forward by answering questions through hard thought out research. Successively, public policy can take advantage of scientific answers to initiate real change. The issue of food security is one of many problems that scientists can help to fix. It is the responsibility of informed scientists to help in these situations, but they cannot without the proper tools. I am driven to actuate change myself and I know this program will give me the mechanism to do so.