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The Maverick Minute | Scott Scholars Program

Wayne Watkins, new executive director of the Scott Scholars Program, joins Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., to discuss the program and how he envisions its growth.

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  • Wayne Watkins is the new executive director of the Scott Scholars Program.

  • With the combination of philanthropic organizations, the business community, the university and of course the students, it was a very easy decision for Watkins to come to Omaha.

  • Watkins goal for the Scott Scholars Program is to help build on assets that are already in place; accelerate innovation, connections to the business world, the creation and development of technologies, to be engrained in the social fabric, etc.

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