{"id":142945,"date":"2018-11-16T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=142945"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:34:07","slug":"truman-scholar-dedicated-promoting-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/truman-scholar-dedicated-promoting-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Truman Scholar Dedicated to Promoting Global Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142904\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-142904 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Akshayaa Chittibabu has traveled the world studying languages and advocating for global malaria and polio prevention. Here she is pictured in rural Panama. (Courtesy of Akshayaa Chittibabu)\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped.jpg 960w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Magazine_Akshayaa_1_cropped-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/367;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akshayaa Chittibabu, right, has traveled the world studying languages and advocating for global malaria and polio prevention. Here, she is pictured in rural Panama. (Courtesy of Akshayaa Chittibabu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sans\">Akshayaa Chittibabu is, among other things, a STEM Scholar in UConn\u2019s Honors Program, a 2016 Holster Scholar, a 2017 Newman Fellow, a UN Foundation Global Fellow, and a 2018 Truman Scholar. After she received the Truman, a highly selective national award that honors our next generation of public service leaders, Provost Craig Kennedy said, \u201cShe represents everything we at the University of Connecticut challenge our students to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sans\">With a dual major in biological sciences and sociology, Chittibabu is planning to pursue both MD and public policy graduate degrees. But if things don\u2019t work out for her on the science end of the scale, she could always take her bona fide artistic skills and become a poet or a painter. Better still, she could try being a stand-up comic, because this high-achieving scholar has a quick wit and a keen sense of timing when it comes to delivering a punchline. Yes \u2013 she is funny, too.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2018\/09\/24\/akshayaa-chittibabu-19-clas\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akshayaa Chittibabu &#8217;19 (CLAS) talks about her travels, her plans for the future, and napping in the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":142906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,156,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1935],"class_list":["post-142945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-profile","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:52:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143706,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142945\/revisions\/143706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/142906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142945"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=142945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=142945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}