A Ticket to Vietnam
"I knew what I wanted to do, but there was always a financial barrier."
"I knew what I wanted to do, but there was always a financial barrier."
When Kaylee Miceli decided tohead up a neuroscience research study in Vietnam, there was only one problem: a plane ticket to Vietnam isn’t cheap.
“I knew what I wanted to do, but there was always a financial barrier,” said Miceli, a rising junior who is a psychology major.
Instead, she hunkered down in the library, trying to decipher Vietnamese research papers on mental health treatment in a part of the world she thought she couldn’t visit.
But with financial support from theCarolina Global Initiative AwardOpens in new window, Miceli boarded a plane to Ho Chi Minh City to explore her interest in neuroscience in a way she never thought possible.