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    Philanthropy and Impact

    Making Things Better

    April 8, 2020

    Julia Riley, a cook at Tobey-Kendal Dining Hall, decided to put her time to good use and has been making masks for her coworkers – as well as for health care workers.

    Julia Riley wearing homemade mask while working
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    Philanthropy and Impact

    UNC Card Campaign Focuses on Lifting Spirits

    April 2, 2020

    Kendyl Kelly, UNC’s program coordinator for Student Organizations, has initiated the United to Nurture our Community (UNC): A Card Campaign that involves sending handwritten cards to high-risk populations of the coronavirus pandemic in Greeley.

    Card campaign cards
  3. March 30, 2020

    While the past century presents a number of examples, the influenza outbreak of 1918 may most closely resemble what our world is now experiencing with the current global pandemic. History Professor Fritz Fischer shares a portion of his classroom lesson here.

    Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston
  4. March 30, 2020

    The coronavirus (COVID-19) has uncovered numerous flaws in supply chains, according to Mike Loughrin, an adjunct professor in the online Master of Business Administration program at UNC.

    Toilet paper being made at manufacturing plant