Colby Sanders, a Missouri State University (MSU) graduate student focused on sports management, came from a coaching background with little experience in grant writing. In the fall of 2024, alongside fellow graduate student Katherine Whitaker, Colby helped develop a grant application for MSU’s vision screening program that has provided free vision screenings, using high-tech vision screening cameras, to over 105,000 individuals over the past 10 years. Their team effort in supporting an important health initiative (access to healthcare) highlights MSU’s commitment to community-engaged student scholarship at the graduate level.

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