Dung Mai, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, had a hard time taking tests. He would know the material, but once he walked into class, his mind would go blank.
“I didn’t know if it was just me or was something else,” he said.
From 2005 through 2008, Mai served in the Navy. His deployments took him to Jordan, Bahrain, Spain, Turkey and Dubai. Upon returning, he entered Tarrant County College, where he received an associate’s degree. He did not recall noticing much in the way of veterans’ services there. “But I didn’t really ask,” he said.
After entering UT-Arlington, he was asked to participate in a study on veterans. That is how he met Hanli Liu, a bioengineering professor, and Alexa Smith-Osborne, an assistant professor in the social work school, who have teamed up in an effort to help veterans.
After that, things began to change for Mai, 24.
“That just opened up so much stuff for me,” he said. “They had just gotten started, so in a way it was a learning experience for them, but at the same time it was me trying to figure out what’s going on.”
Read the full story at the Texas Tribune.
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