In 2014, Dr. Ge Chen left behind her dream job as the senior administrator and executive director of TRIO programs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Shane Bowers made a promise to his ailing father that he would finish college.
Displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bowers and his parents found their way to central Arkansas.
With metastasized stage-four bone cancer, Bowers’ father needed to be near University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences facilities for treatment. Bowers and his mother took care of his father full time.