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The Southern Illinois University System board of trustees and the student advisory committee for the SIU System (SACSS) are honoring some outstanding students with the 2024 SIU System Distinguished Student Service Award.

Eight students from the SIU campuses in Carbondale, Edwardsville and Springfield were recently honored at the SIU board meeting that was held in Carbondale on April 11.

Children’s Wisconsin CEO Peggy Troy to speak at Graduate School and Graduate School of Management ceremony

Shital Vora, M.D., CEO and co-founder of Global Brigades, will serve as Marquette University’s 2024 undergraduate Commencement speaker, and Peggy Troy, Children’s Wisconsin CEO, will speak at the Graduate School and Graduate School of Management ceremony. Both are Marquette alumnae. As part of the university’s Commencement ceremonies, Vora and Troy will be presented honorary doctor of humane letters degrees.

Marquette’s 143rd Commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, May 11, or Sunday, May 12, at Fiserv Forum, located at 1111 Vel R. Phillips Ave., Milwaukee. With the first round of the NBA playoffs starting April 20, it is our understanding that the Milwaukee Bucks organization will not be able to notify the university of the exact date for Commencement until April 28 (game 4) at the soonest or May 4 (game 7) at the latest, depending on first round playoff results.

Marquette leaders share in our students’ and their families’ frustrations and continue to ask for patience and understanding while the university awaits the Bucks’ schedule.

Global Brigades CEO and co-founder Dr. Shital Vora to serve as undergraduate Commencement speaker; Children’s Wisconsin CEO Peggy Troy will deliver graduate ceremony speech

Eight regional students were honored by the SIU Board of Trustees with the 2024 SIU System Distinguished Student Service Award at a meeting held in Carbondale on April 11.

The Southern Illinois University System Board of Trustees and the Student Advisory Committee for the SIU System (SACSS) honored the students who were from campuses in Carbondale, Edwardsville and Springfield.

Bring on the dinner that also helps the students of University of New Hampshire.

Hey, we all have to eat, right? So why not plan to eat dinner at a fabulous restaurant not only known for their pizza, but also their philanthropy?

You have to love local establishments who offer 20% of all eat-in or takeout to be donate to a great cause for that night, and it’s almost here.

The Oven (formerly The Community Oven) in Epping, New Hampshire, will host a fundraiser for one of the regions favorite UNH groups on April 29. Global Medical Brigades is going to Panama in January to help communities in medical need, but first, they need your help.

In the fall of 2021, Chris Facenda-Torres arrived at Penn State’s campus after a freshman year lost to COVID-19. With things mostly back to normal, he browsed the Involvement Fair and came across the Penn State Global Medical Brigades.

Though he hoped the organization had an education chapter to complement his secondary education major, Facenda-Torres found himself interested in the medical chapter.

In 2003, Shital Chauhan Vora, H Sci ’04, PT ’06, had a vision to create an immersion experience for students to travel to Central America to provide important care to those in need and instill best health practices in impoverished communities.

Over 20 years later, students in the College of Health Sciences continue Vora’s work, but with an additional context in mind: this year’s mission theme, en todo amar y servir or “in everything to love and serve.”

Learning often takes place in a lab, but Baylor students have the opportunity to provide direct patient care to people in Panama. In partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas chapter, Baylor students can volunteer with Global Medical Brigades — an international movement advocating for sustainable health care systems — to gain hands-on experience in the medical field.

Since Baylor does not have its own Global Medical Brigades chapter, Plano junior Tyler Selkin partnered with Las Vegas junior Macy Perkes, a former Baylor student who transferred to UNLV, to participate in the Panama trip.

A group of UPEI students is preparing for a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to offer volunteer medical services.

The group, known as UPEI Medical Brigades, partners with Global Brigades, an international non-profit that provides health and economic assistance for communities across the globe. This year they are going to Ghana.

On March 30 the UPEI group held a craft market, to raise money for their journey, which departs on May 25. Their goal is to raise $115,000 to cover expenses for 30 volunteers, $20,000 has already been raised.

A group of Prince Edward Island students are looking to bring medical aid to disadvantaged communities a world away, for the third year in a row.

The University of Prince Edward Island Medical Brigades held a craft fair this weekend, where they collected donations at the door.

The money goes to help the students travel to Ghana, along with medical professionals and equipment, to help improve the lives of people living in poverty in the country.