BOWLING GREEN, Ky., July 6 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news release:
Brent Andrews didn't set out to become a Fulbright Scholar. For most of his career, his world has been the bedside - first as a pediatric ICU nurse in Minnesota during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recently in a Louisville emergency room. But this fall, the 2019 WKU and honors nursing graduate will trade the ER for Taipei, Taiwan, where he'll spend two years pursuing a Fulbright-funded master's degree in global health research.
It's a path that started, in a roundabout way, with a completely different major.
"I initially started college studying international affairs, and I was in the Chinese Flagship program," Andrews said. H...