{"id":39592,"date":"2011-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/16\/student-spotlight-rachel-leitt\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T06:00:00","slug":"student-spotlight-rachel-leitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/16\/student-spotlight-rachel-leitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Student spotlight &#8211; Rachel Leitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Education is one of the four pillars of UNMC&#8217;s mission and our students are the lifeblood of that aspect of campus life. <\/p>\n<p>In UNMC Today&#8217;s Student Spotlight, we get to know some of these students, who will become tomorrow&#8217;s health care professionals. <\/p>\n<p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RachelLeitt1211.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:7pt; line-height:150%;\">Rachel Leitt<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Today we meet Rachel Leitt, a senior dental hygiene student in the College of Dentistry.<\/p>\n<p><UL><LI><B>Name:<\/B> Rachel Leitt<br \/>\n<LI><B>Hometown:<\/B> Lincoln<br \/>\n<LI><B>Year\/program:<\/B> Senior Dental Hygiene (Class of 2012)<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><B>What is your best memory from your time at UNMC? <\/B><\/p>\n<p>Participating in Panhandle Dental Day in Gordon, Neb., last May.<\/p>\n<p><B>Our four brand values are leadership, commitment to excellence, working together and being a trusted resource. Pick one and tell us a time you witnessed it embodied at UNMC. <\/B> <\/p>\n<p>Working together and commitment to excellence are demonstrated through the outreach programs in which we participate. Most especially are the sealant programs we do at local elementary schools. For each program, a team of six (6) hygiene students and two (2) dental hygiene instructors work together to provide the best care possible for the elementary school students.<\/p>\n<p><B>List three things people may not know about you. <\/B><br \/>\n<UL><LI>I love to go biking and cook.<br \/>\n<LI>I swam with a dolphin once on a vacation when I was young.<br \/>\n<LI>I&#8217;m determined to become good at skiing this winter.<\/UL><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"pGlYXX ZdbqNRsfAEBJwZ GD nrfk xe\"><!-- pGlYXX ZdbqNRsfAEBJwZ GD nrfk xe --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we meet Rachel Leitt, a senior dental hygiene student in the College of Dentistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":39591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-education","department-college-of-dentistry","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Student spotlight - Rachel Leitt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today we meet Rachel Leitt, a senior dental hygiene student in the College of Dentistry.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/16\/student-spotlight-rachel-leitt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Student spotlight - Rachel Leitt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we meet Rachel Leitt, a senior dental hygiene student in the College of Dentistry.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/16\/student-spotlight-rachel-leitt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-12-16T06:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RachelLeitt1211.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"202\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chuck Brown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chuck Brown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/16\/student-spotlight-rachel-leitt\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/16\/student-spotlight-rachel-leitt\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chuck Brown\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f99efde0b91c6c20a256357d501c35d3\"},\"headline\":\"Student spotlight &#8211; 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