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Bemidji State recognizes faculty and staff during annual celebration Bemidji State University recognized 74 employees with 875 combined years of service, nine retiring staff members, two faculty members who have been granted emeriti status and the winners of the university’s Awards of Excellence at its annual Employee Recognition Celebration on Thursday, April 29. Written By: Pioneer Staff Report | 11:02 am, Apr. 29, 2021 × BEMIDJI -- Bemidji State University recognized...

Provided Dustin Liu ’19 with fellow Cornellians during a Jan 2019 service trip in Hualien, Taiwan, serving the Tzu Chi Foundation. Community-engaged learning initiative helps students change the world March 5, 2021 Throughout his Cornell career, Dustin Liu ’19 was deeply involved with the community-engaged learning initiative (CEL)—a university-wide effort to involve every Cornell student in learning with and from communities. Dustin says that his engagement with the larger It...

Lucas spent a week in Washington, D.C., with other freshmen Bonner Leaders in March 2019. He met her at West End Ministries, the local nonprofit that follows the motto, “We serve God by helping others.” Lucas worked there as its community garden coordinator when Mary came up to talk. She was 60 and homeless. She came by to see Lucas almost every day, sharing with him the details of her life – getting evicted from an apartment and living on the streets because her monthly Social Security c...

UW Medicine Newsroom | UW News On Dec. 14, the first vials of COVID-19 vaccines arrived at Harborview Medical Center. Steve Fijalka, director of pharmacy services at UW Medicine, is pictured here taking a case of vaccine vials out of a box packed with dry ice.Mark Stone/University of Washington In a deep and dark December, an eagerly awaited event brightened the early morning in a UW Medicine loading zone. The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccinations had arrived. The 3,900 doses had been marked ...