Category: Students

Clinton School student Ali Turro can now add the title of published photographer to her resume. Next summer, Viking/Penguin Publishing will release “The Price of Stones,” written by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri. The book’s cover will feature a photograph that Turro took this summer while completing her International Public Service Project in Uganda.

The Verizon Foundation today presented a $5,500 grant to Arkansas Literacy Councils (ALC) for the research and creation of a literacy tutor training manual, a project being completed by three students from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

For her International Public Service Project, Barnett traveled to Belize City to examine the Clean Water Initiative for the Peacework Village Network, a non-profit specializing in the facilitation of service learning projects for university students abroad.

We are posting a series of stories on the Clinton School web site about the group projects that Clinton School students are working to communities, nonprofits and government entities across Arkansas. The projects are part of our Practicum program, which takes students into the field to complete for-credit public service projects in the Master of Public Service degree program. There are two articles currently up on our site:

Gralon has been working with a team of community leaders in Blytheville, where he recently helped develop a map of possible community-based initiatives.