When Chris Martin was a student at Auburn University, his developmental psychology professor offered the class a choice: write a 20-page paper or do 40 hours of volunteering in the community.
“At that time, I was not one to do any extra academic type of work, so I easily said, ‘40 hours, please,’ and I volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club at the Boykin Community Center,” he said. “When I returned to Auburn as a professor in 2019, I wanted to get back into that community in a meaningful way.”
And getting back into Boykin is exactly what he’s done. Martin, an assistant clinical professor in Auburn’s College of Nursing, was recently named a faculty scholar by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, which aims to nurture the careers of promising educators in medicine and nursing.
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