Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences is hoping to recruit more Native American high school and college students into the medicine and science fields.
The Office for the Advancement of American Indians in Medicine and Science was created at the Tulsa-based medical school in April.
Associate dean Kent Smith says it's important for more American Indians to go into the science and medicine fields because Native culture revolves around nature, animals and plants. He says that by recruiting more Native Americans into the fields, it will have a positive impact on all Oklahoma communities.
Smith, who is a member of the Comanche and Chickasaw Nations, is using his role to reach out to the state's 39 tribes and to support Native student programs.
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