{"id":139587,"date":"2024-05-24T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=139587"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T20:25:08","slug":"ole-miss-student-community-champion-named-2024-newman-civic-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-student-community-champion-named-2024-newman-civic-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Student, Community Champion Named 2024 Newman Civic Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elijah Mudryk receives access to leadership development and educational resources<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Mississippi<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0psychology graduate student Elijah Mudryk<\/strong> will spend the next year learning how to make the world a better place as a 2024 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mudryk, a clinical psychology doctoral candidate, is among a cohort of 142 students selected from 38 states, Washington, D.C.<\/strong>, and Mexico<\/strong>. University presidents\u00a0nominate students<\/a>\u00a0based on their potential for public leadership and community work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This fellowship reflects Elijah’s outstanding leadership, and I applaud his engagement with communities and his drive to problem-solve and help groups access resources,” Chancellor Glenn Boyce<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In particular, his work with the Psychological Services Center at the University of Mississippi has helped provide evidence-based social skills training for neurodivergent children, demonstrating the reach and impact of our graduate students’ efforts on the greater community.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each student will participate in learning and networking sessions, one-on-one leadership development and opportunities to present or publish work through\u00a0Campus Compact<\/strong><\/a>, a coalition of colleges and universities with a goal of expanding the public impact of higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mudryk plans to maximize the fellowship by connecting with people from disciplines outside of psychology in search of new ways to approach community issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’d love to learn as much as I can from business, from art, from sociology, from communications, from the hard sciences, all of the different fields I can,” he said. “How they communicate findings to the public, how they really try to instrument change using their knowledge.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We spend years and years and years learning these really specific ways of understanding things and it’s so hard to communicate that knowledge to the public a lot of the time. Trying to learn from different perspectives and seeing how they’ve applied civic change will be the most useful thing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mudryk’s research<\/a> and personal interests focus on community health and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of his projects include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n