Morehead State University – UofL News Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:59:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 High school students experience simulated public health crisis at UofL, Morehead State /post/uofltoday/high-school-students-experience-simulated-public-health-crisis-at-uofl-serves-as-pilot-for-morehead-state-program/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:20:23 +0000 /?p=58658 An April program at the University of Louisville served as the pilot program on public health crises for a simulation to be held at Morehead State University on Monday.

High school students acted as health officials, responding to a simulated infectious disease outbreak public health crisis at the UofL Health Sciences Center on April 15. Event organizers from UofL’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Information Sciences and the Kentucky Department for Public Health guided approximately 20 Central High School students through a series of activities to identify the source of a disease outbreak and plan a response.

Presented with a health crisis scenario, the students researched three potential diagnoses, interviewed standardized patients and participated in a “tick drag” to gather insects they suspected to be the source of infections. After determining the outbreak was caused by Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the students designed a public health plan to curb the spread.

The project was a pilot for a larger event to take place June 5 at Morehead State University for 32 students in the Rogers Scholars Program. It is designed to interest the students in health careers.

 

]]> Dual credits a key to this December graduate’s degree /post/uofltoday/dual-credits-a-key-to-this-december-graduates-degree/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:18:01 +0000 /?p=57818 Alexa Grace Brunson arrived at the University of Louisville in the fall of 2021, a graduate of the prestigiouson the Morehead State University campus, where high school juniors and seniors live in a dormitory and take college classes.
Fueled by those credits, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in sociology by August, and she will walk across the UofL commencement stage at the KFC Yum! Center on Dec. 16.
Her secret sauce?
“Both of my parents are really, truly into education and reading and knowledge,” said Brunson, 19, who is back at MSU working on her master’s degree in sociology. Her mother is a bookmobile librarian and her father works in IT at MSU. Her two older sisters are college graduates, one also with a master’s degree.
Alexa Grace Brunson
Alexa Grace Brunson
Brunson’s next step will be pharmacy school, and she’s already been accepted to her first choice.
At Craft, Brunson devoured class after class, taking as many as she could year-round, and arrived at UofL in her first year with enough credits to be in her senior year.
Even at UofL, she took classes year-round and added a couple Jefferson Community Technical College (JCTC) classes to help her complete her degree requirements. She said her friends and senior lecturer Jonetta Weber, director of academic services for the sociology department and adjunct faculty member in sociology and sport administration, were great supporters when she got discouraged.
“I loved the UofL campus. Even though it’s a very large school and it has a larger student body than Morehead State, I really felt at home there, genuinely,” she said. “And I loved my professors. I loved every organization I was in. And then the city itself — there’s so much to do. You can’t even get bored there because there’s always something either on campus, off campus. I just love the environment.”
Brunson is a graduate assistant at MSU and also works as a resident assistant at her alma mater. Accompanied by her dog, Nina, and cat, Mango, she serves as a role model who helps the academically gifted Craft students navigate their unique post-secondary experience.
For some people, these achievements might be enough. For Brunson, who said she’d like to return to Louisville when she starts her pharmacy career, they are only the beginning.
“I’m proud of myself,” she said, “but I still feel like there’s so much more I can do as a person to benefit other people.”
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