The Honor Roll Podcast

Opening Doors to Research and Florida MedConnect with Elaine Pan and Shivanshu Kumar

Episode Summary

This week, Honors students Elaine Pan and Shivanshu Kumar share how a chance meeting in their first-semester Honors Foundations course spakred the creation of Florida MedConnect, a thriving student organization. As pre-med students, they knew firsthand the challenges of finding research opportunities on campus and set out to build a solution. Elaine and Shivanshu discuss what it takes to build an organization from the ground up and how Florida MedConnect is connecting students with research, service, and community engagement opportunities across Tampa Bay.

Episode Notes

This week, Honors students Elaine Pan and Shivanshu Kumar share how a chance meeting in their first-semester Honors Foundations course spakred the creation of Florida MedConnect, a thriving student organization. 

As pre-med students, they knew firsthand the challenges of finding research opportunities on campus and set out to build a solution. Elaine and Shivanshu discuss what it takes to build an organization from the ground up and how Florida MedConnect is connecting students with research, service, and community engagement opportunities across Tampa Bay.

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Guests: Elaine Pan and Shivanshu Kumar

Hosts: Reva Gandhi and Fabiana Requena

Audio Production by: Sandra Napolitano and Vama Shah

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