MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient is Mary Jo Mulligan-Kehoe. Mulligan-Kehoe demonstrated both patience and adaptability on her journey to a highly successful career in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health and in ...
MARQUETTE — Remote work brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and projections that some of it will be permanent is reshaping Michigan downtowns and traditional office spaces. Workers who continue to work from home are still going out into the community and making use of alternative workspaces at coffee shops and libraries, said Richard Florida, an economic analysis and policy professor at the University of Toronto. Already, collaborative spaces in Michigan libraries are seeing higher traffic as people seek a place to work, said Deborah Mikula, the executive director of the Michigan ...
MARQUETTE — Working a stressful situation as a simulation can go a long way to working it in a real-life scenario. The Northern Michigan University School of Nursing and Reserve Officers Training Corps cadet programs on Friday held trauma simulations on the grassy areas outside the West ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University Assistant Professor Stacy Boyer-Davis is the recipient of the 2021 Accountant Teaching and Excellence Award from the Michigan Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The award recognizes educators in the profession for the crucial role they play ...
SAN FRANCISCO — One desperate California school district is sending flyers home in students’ lunchboxes, telling parents it’s “now hiring.” Elsewhere, principals are filling in as crossing guards, teachers are being offered signing bonuses and schools are moving back to online learning. Now that schools have welcomed students back to classrooms, they face a new challenge: a shortage of teachers and staff the likes of which some districts say they have never seen. Public schools have struggled for years with teacher shortages, particularly in math, science, special education ...
MARQUETTE — Want to follow a group of kids as they enter sixth grade in a small Upper Peninsula town in 1957-58? With “The SideRoad Kids,” the new book of short fiction from the Ann Arbor-based Modern History Press, columnist and author Sharon M. Kennedy takes readers on that ...
