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LOCAL UPT STUDENTS PREPARE TOLEAVE FOR AFRICA
TITUSVILLE, May 21 -- Three local University of Pittsburgh at Titusville college students, Sarah Thompson of Titusville, Jessica Huff of Cooperstown, and Angela Elliston of Oil City will be part of a twenty-person group from the University of Pittsburgh that will spend June in rural Tanzania working with a hospital and local church group building an orphanage and developing AIDS education materials.The group will be doing the work as part of a University of Pittsburgh project and global service learning course organized and supervised by Dr. Linda Winkler, associate professor of anthropology and biology at UPT, and Mr. Joseph Croskey, assistant instructor and retention coordinator at UPT. They began their experience at a team-building retreat during the first weekend of May.Sarah Thompson has been a student at the UPT campus for two years and will continue her education in child development at the Pittsburgh campus in the fall. Jessica Huff graduated from UPT in April as a Physical Therapist Assistant and will also continue her education in Oakland in the fall. Angela Elliston will be attending the University of Pittsburgh this summer as part of this project and hopes to continue her studies in Titusville in the fall.# # #
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