A grassroots project that seeks to increase the participation of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the field of medicine came to Sacramento State on Thursday, Feb. 6, for a daylong event that brought undergraduates face-to-face with minority physicians, dentists and medical students. And a former Sac State student led the way.

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, had an Award Essay on John Taylor’s Translations of Lorenzo Calogero’s Selected Poems appear in American Poet, the journal for The Academy of American Poets, Fall-Winter, 2013, pp. 29-32. Carle also served as judge for the Academy’s Raiziss/de Palchi Award for an outstanding translation of modern Italian poetry into English. The prize consisted of a $25,000 fellowship to complete a translation project.