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Grant Awarded to Nursing and Health Professions for SimBaby Project

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions has received an 89-thousand dollars grant from the Blue and You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas.  The grant will be used to purchase a baby simulator, called the SimBaby.  Telling us about this is Kayla Travis, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Clinical Lab Coordinator.  Addie Flemming is an Assistant Professor of Nursing.  Travis starts the interview by telling about the clinical lab, where the SimBaby is located.  Click on the Listen button for the entire interview.  

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.