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Four Seniors Awarded Stride Rite Fellowships

Tang, who plans on going to medical school, praised the experience he got while working with Project HEALTH.

"I got a chance to see first hand the connection between poverty and health," Tang said. "As a doctor, it is very important to understand that in order to do good medicine, you have to think beyond the doctor's office, into the schools, and into the community."

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Guerrier, who also plans on working in medicine, said she will gain experience in public health by working with thirty Dorchester teenagers as a health coordinator for the non-profit Urban Dreams.

Ramakrishnan plans to teach math to high school students in the southern Indian village of Madras.

"Most teachers in India don't have more than a high school degree," he said.

And King will work with troubled children once they are released from juvenile detention facilities.

Along with the four post-graduate fellowship recipients, forty-four other students will be honored at tonight's dinner ceremony.

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