By Megan Neely
The seven founding charter members of FIMRC at Purdue University: (left to right) Juniors Dan Wagner,
Rob Painter, Courtney Kelly, Courtney Cotsonas, Mattie White, Megan Carroll, Amir El-Khalili
Purdue University never limits the opportunities given to students, making the initiative
of involvement come from the individual students, themselves. The four years spent
during college are all about what students do with their time while they are here. They
have the freedom to be as involved, or uninvolved as they would like, as each
opportunity, at hand, allows them to create their own experience.
Junior Courtney Kelly takes advantage of every opportunity she has at the university.
There is not a doubt that she makes every initiative possible to be as involved as she can
be. Kelly is studying Health and Disease Biology, with aspirations to go on mission trip
overseas.
With this, Kelly has come in contact with a nonprofit organization, the Foundation for
International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC). FIMRC works with organizations on
college campuses all over the country, providing opportunities for mission trips to places
around the world. Through this organization Kelly has become involved with the
medically-oriented subprogram SIHC, which is the Summer International Health
Fellowship program for premed, first and second year medical students. Because FIMRC
reached out to Kelly, she collaborated with six other students, making her the president of
the organization with all seven members being the founding charter of FIMRC at Purdue
University.