Catamounts Care Ambassadors part of team recognized as force for beating the pandemic
WCU Stories March 16, 2021
The Catamounts Care Ambassadors, a student-led and campus supported program to build awareness of pandemic protocols, in collaboration with Student Health Ambassadors from five other higher education institutions have been recognized for innovation in programing to stop the spread of COVID-19 within the region and on respective campuses including Western Carolina University.
The team earned second place from the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities in a recent competition and will be presented an award and gift cards during a virtual summit April 21-22. The consorti
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WASHINGTON Merrick Garland, the Lincolnwood-raised federal appeals judge Senate Republicans blocked from becoming a Barack Obama Supreme Court justice, was picked by Joe Biden on Thursday to be the next attorney general.
President-elect Biden rolled out Garland and three other top Justice Department nominees promising a return to normalcy after years of President Donald Trump pressuring top DOJ officials to act as if they were his personal lawyers.
Once Trump is out of office, “We need to restore the honor, the integrity, the independence” of the Justice Department “that has been so badly damaged,” Biden said.