usa today all academic team

[isacc]

<p>or the twenty students chosen for the top academic team</p>

<p>two this year were from Dartmouth!!</p>

<p>and the lead story was about one of the big green students</p>

[foggy]

<p>Link??? (16characters)</p>

[sybbie719]

<p>here you go</p>

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<p>Dartmouth College seniors Zachary Kaufman and N. Taylor Thompson, both engaged in socially conscious entrepreneurship and deeply involved in the college’s William Jewett Tucker Foundation, are among 20 students nationwide to be chosen for USA Today’s 19th annual “All-USA College Academic First Team.” The winners’ names were announced today in the publication, which has a circulation of more than 2 million.</p>

<p>The program honors students who not only excel academically but also have had impact beyond the classroom. The 20 first-team members, selected by a panel of judges from about 500 juniors and seniors nominated, each will receive $2,500 cash awards. Second- and third-team members also were selected, along with honorable mentions. Dartmouth seniors Laura Myers of South Glen Falls, NY, and Jessica Ogden of Sanibel, Fla., both received honorable mentions.</p>

<p>Kaufman, 21, from Madison, Wis., a major in health and society in Latin America and the Caribbean, is founder and director of Lose The Shoes, a barefoot charity soccer tournament started at Dartmouth and now in action on 25 college and high school campuses around the country; and has worked throughout his college career for Grassroot Soccer, an HIV/AIDS prevention program that reaches out to African youth through soccer, founded by Dr. Thomas Clark, an alumnus of the college and Dartmouth Medical School. For his senior honors thesis, Kaufman is evaluating an adolescent-targeted HIV prevention program in the Dominican Republic, and this March will co-lead 11 students on an eight-day service/education trip to that country as part of the Tucker Foundation’s “Alternative Spring Break” program. Kaufman also has done public health work in Nicaragua as a Tucker Fellow. In addition, he won a 2007 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious $30,000 national award for juniors bound for graduate school.</p>

<p>Thompson, 22, an anthropology major, co-founded and directs the business development for PharmaSecure, a company that verifies the authenticity of drugs. Thompson learned about the harm caused by drug counterfeiting during a sophomore-year Tucker Fellowship in Rwanda, where he conducted public health research and designed and taught an entrepreneurship course. A jazz saxophonist who has made a recording of Rwandan music, he also helped found Harmattan, a project that helps artists in the developing world develop a global market.</p>

<p>[Dartmouth</a> News - Two Dartmouth students net top USA Today honor - 02/14/08](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/02/14a.html]Dartmouth”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/02/14a.html)</p>

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[isacc]

<p>[Great</a> heights: These undergrads set on solving problems - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-02-13-college-allstars_N.htm]Great”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-02-13-college-allstars_N.htm)</p>

[PtonGrad2000]

<p>These are two terrific students who deserve the honor accorded them and whose own achievements reflect well on their fine alma mater. Well done!</p>

[ohmadre]

<p>Actually D is represented by 4 students in total, two of whom made the First Team. </p>

<p>[TheDartmouth.com</a> | USA Today honors four students](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2008/02/15/news/usatoday/]TheDartmouth.com”>http://thedartmouth.com/2008/02/15/news/usatoday/)</p>