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Online version of magazine features video stories

The spring issue of Grand Valley Magazine will arrive in homes soon.
The spring issue of Grand Valley Magazine will arrive in homes soon.
An international student works as a standardized patient in the simulation center.
An international student works as a standardized patient in the simulation center.
Fluition Innovations, a student entrepreneurial team
Fluition Innovations, a student entrepreneurial team
Ron Gates rallies the crowd at a football game.
Ron Gates rallies the crowd at a football game.

The spring issue of Grand Valley Magazine highlights groundbreaking work by a speech-language pathology professor, and inventions by students that are making life easier for many people.

The magazine will be mailed to homes soon, click here for links to the following stories.

• Saddle up: Beth Macauley is one of four speech-language pathologists in the country to practice hippotherapy, the use of horses to facilitate traditional methods of therapy.

Cultural competency in health care: A partnership between the Padnos International Center and simulation center elevates the learning experience for students.

• Hot ideas and inventions: It's Grand Valley's version of the hit show "Shark Tank." Students are finding success as entrepreneurs through a university center and their own ingenuity. 

• Life before Louie: The iconic Louie the Laker, complete with gloves and hat, didn't happen overnight, or even within Grand Valley's first 30 years of playing intercollegiate sports.

Q&A: Professor of education Faite Mack began working at Grand Valley in 1972. Read about his rich legacy of service.

Click here to see a digital version of the magazine.

 

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