Alfonso
Lopez
Alfonso is a transfer student from Salt Lake Community
College majoring in Anthropology with a Health Emphasis and minoring in
Integrative Human Biology. His long-term goal is to attend medical school.
Alfonso also hopes once he has graduated to be an active member of his
community and plans to be involved in politics and policy-making especially in
things related to community health and health care.
While at SLCC Alfonso was involved in Student Support
Services a program for under-represented college students. At the U of U he has taken a leadership role
in organizing the annual Pre-Med Conference and has been involved with Community
Engaged Learning. He just completed an
internship and plans to do another.
He chose to come to the U because it is a place that
encourages students to pursue their dreams and to imagine and achieve a bright
future for themselves. He also appreciated the high quality of the U’s academic
programs especially in the areas of medicine and business.
He faced several challenges when he first transferred to
the U. He found it difficult to adjust to the larger class sizes and the
heavier work load in his courses. He is
now glad for the increased academic challenges he found at the U because he
feels they have helped him become a better student which in turn will help him
be a better working professional and citizen.
The University is lucky to have a student as accomplished
and community-minded as Alfonso attending our school. We wish him all the best
as he moves on to medical school and beyond!
