![NURSING NETWORKING — Students talk with healthcare professionals during the Healthcare Career Fair hosted in the Whitman Commons. The fair allowed students to meet with employers and network for future career opportunities in the healthcare industry.](https://thenorthwindonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fball9-8_720.jpg)
Healthcare Career Fair explores healthcare industry professions
Rachel Pott
• September 13, 2023
![DEVELOPING EMPATHY - NMU students gather in a group for their assigned “family.” Each participant in the simulation is assigned a family to work with as they view what it’s like to experience poverty. The simulation lasts three hours, each hour acting as a month of living in poverty.](https://thenorthwindonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image_67211521-e1679081600399-900x771.jpg)
Poverty simulation helps participants develop empathy
Jackie Phillips
• March 20, 2023
![LETS DONATE - Cassidy Orr (left) and Maci Aho (right), seniors and nursing majors, volunteered to work at the registration station at the Red Cross Blood Drive while students, staff, and Marquette community members donate in the background.](https://thenorthwindonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_20220914_144457387_HDR-900x675.jpg)
Nation facing blood shortages; Red Cross hosts blood drive at Lydia M. Olson Library
Ayanna Allen, Assistant News Editor
• September 15, 2022
![GIVING BACK—Morgan Hallenbeck (left, front), Loryn Burnette (farthest back, right), Lauren Smith (middle, right), and Analisa Ehli (front, right) Students from the School of Nursing helped out with the Blood Drive by taking vitals for those who were donating blood.](https://thenorthwindonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/blooddrive.jpg)
School of Nursing hosts annual blood drive with U.P. Regional Blood Center
Ayanna Allen, Staff Writer
• October 15, 2021
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