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Wednesday: Learning

School takes jab at encouraging teacher vaccinations

LANSING — Some Detroit teachers can now receive $500 and 16 hours of vacation time if they get a COVID-19 vaccine before June 30. That’s the closest a Michigan school district has come to a vaccine requirement, according to education leaders. The Michigan Education Association reports ...

New wave

MARQUETTE — The first wave of students completing their studies in Northern Michigan University’s new mathematics graduate program have been announced. The graduates are Erik Flinn, whose research project is “Algebraic Structures and Variations: From Latin Squares to Lie Quasigroups”; ...

Commentary

“There’s no job out there, no career, that could be more important. At no time in your life will your work be more important. ”— Attorney General Dana Nessel talking with Capital News Service correspondents about the role of journalists. LANSING — After four years of bitter verbal ...

Cookies for caring

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University students have delivered cookies and brownies to various Marquette locations to express appreciation on behalf of NMU for the above-and-beyond efforts demonstrated by teachers, first responders and nursing home staff members during the pandemic. The ...

Environmental knowledge

MARQUETTE — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is partnering with the Michigan Learning Channel to provide environmentally focused instructional videos as part of the content for this new service. The MLC is a statewide distance-learning collaboration by public ...

Giving back: Scholarship to be awarded to service-oriented seniors

MARQUETTE — A scholarship established through the Northern Michigan University Foundation will support graduating seniors who exhibit outstanding community service while attending NMU. David and Marie Blum of Ann Arbor gifted the William and Josephine Balconi Community Service Scholarship, ...