LOCAL STUDENT VISITS MOROCCO WITH UT MARTIN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
MARTIN, Tenn. – April 11, 2019 – LOCAL STUDENT VISITS MOROCCO WITH UT MARTIN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM– Stone Craft (back row, second-to-left), an animal science major from Medon, traveled to Morocco and Spain with the University of Tennessee at Martin’s Ned Ray McWherter Institute in March. The Ned Ray McWherter Institute is a three-year professional development program that provides travel, networking and leadership opportunities to select UT Martin students across all majors. The institute’s junior cohort plans a spring international trip each year to a country where neither English is the official language nor is the United States dollar the official currency. Craft, along with nine other class members, chose to travel to both Morocco and Spain, becoming the first cohort to visit two continents. During the trip, students visited sites such as the Royal Palace of Madrid and the Plaza de Toros bullring in Madrid, Spain, as well as the Atlas Mountain range and the Jemaa el-Fnaa market in Marrakech, Morocco. Pictured at Riad Hidden, a traditional Moroccan house where the cohort stayed in Marrakech, are (front row, l-r) Dr. Carrie Humphreys, UT Martin assistant professor of political science and international studies; students Mary Lane Minatra, Meera Patel, Savannah Stanely and Willie McNeal; Ikram Ouinkhir, riad manager; (back row) students Brooke Boshers, Craft, Kalen Royal, Alex Dunn, Erin Young and John Fritts. For more information about the Ned Ray McWherter Institute, contact Joyanne Gansereit, program coordinator, at 731-881-3620.
