Unlike most future doctors, Jordan Walter, '10, says it was his decision to double major in philosophy that gave him a competitive edge over other medical school applicants.

In April, just a few weeks before exams, the students in Ethical Decision Making in Health Care went to Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the nation's best hospitals, to learn how medical professionals apply the theories they had been studying to real-life-and-death scenarios.

After being exposed to the work of cartoonist R. Crumb last fall, artist scholar Anthony Ferguson, '10, pursued a darker and more introspective direction in his paintings and cartoons.

"Health care is a prime topic in the national conversation," said Jepson School Dean Sandra J. Peart, "and the leadership and ethical challenges are ongoing and complex.” Video of presentation by Johns Hopkins CEO is posted.

“We’re trying to foster a Jepson community of active minds, participative government and facilitating administration,” said Jepson School Government Association 2010-2011 President Alex Cramer.

New Orleans native Juliette Jeanfreau, ’10, returned home to research hurricanes Katrina and Betsy with the dean of Westhampton College. The experience inspired her to look at suffering from a slightly different perspective for her senior honors thesis.

Kathryn Skimming, ’10, made an observation during a summer internship at a hospital that led her to spend her senior year conducting research on whether physicians have an obligation to be healthy.

Prasant Dubey’s interest in social exclusion started on the basketball court when he was younger. For his senior honors thesis, he decided to pursue research to study how rejection affects people of different races.

A shared passion for issues of social justice and Africa drove Zoe Silverman, ’10, and leadership studies assistant professor Karen Zivi to conduct research on human rights and AIDS.

The term community service might not conjure up images of accounting, but at Richmond, accounting is among the many disciplines in which students like Sherry Sun, '11, use their knowledge to help others.