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Salt Lake Community College recently held its annual Employee Recognition Celebration, also marking the 70th anniversary of the college's existence. These are a few photo highlights (more can be found by clicking here ) from that event at the Jordan Campus. For a link to a Q&A feature with Gordon Frisbey, who was honored for working at SLCC 40 years, click here .

Visitors to the new Healing Arts Lab learn about the labor and delivery room. It’s a typical day in the labor and delivery world, as a team of nurses checks on their patient in active labor.   “Victoria” seems to be resting comfortably, when she opens her eyes and tells everyone that her water just broke. Monitors in the room erupt in alarms as the fetal heart rate drops and the routine goes from simple to complex while the group works to change her position to bring the heart rate back into a safe range.   This is one of the many simulated scenarios that nursing students may experience in the new Healing Arts Lab at Salt Lake Community College’s Jordan Campus. A nursing student checks out a sim-mannequin in the pediatric room. The School of Health Sciences recently held an open house to welcome its new dean, Erica Wight, and celebrate the grand opening of the Healing Arts Lab.   The college community, PAC members and donors toured the new facilities to s...

The Thayne Center for Service & Learning at Salt Lake Community College held its annual celebration that honors individuals and groups for their service in communities throughout Utah. The Thayne Center is dedicated to empowering SLCC students and faculty "to realize they have the knowledge and skills to affect positive change in their community." The Center helps establish capacity-building relationships with community organizations, facilitates service-learning development opportunities for faculty and coordinates service leadership programs for students who are out to "change the world." Thayne Center programs include Alternative Spring Break, Community Work-Study, Bruin Pantry, Americorps Education Awards, Civically Engaged Scholars, Community Engagement Leave, Service Learning, SLCC Community Gardens, Student Leaders in Civic Engagement and Community Partners This year's honorees are as follows: Committed Community Partner: United Way U...

Matt Valdez plays a flute he made in Oscar Anderson's Birth of a Flute class. The cacophony of saws, drill presses and the deafening drone of a thickness planer quiets, and the mesmerizing notes of Matt Valdez’s flute playing echo throughout the big room with high ceilings and natural light pouring into Oscar Anderson’s Birth of a Flute class . Instantly the atmosphere in the space changes – about 16 busy people suddenly are still, quiet, transformed by the soothing sound, the sense of calm. Valdez, 22, started with just a piece of blonde-colored wood. Over many hours he used multiple tools, his imagination, decorative inlay and a blue leather strap to fashion the flute from scratch. When he is finished playing, there is a pause of people finishing a sedative thought or relishing a feeling they found wherever it is they went in their heads while Valdez played before everyone applauds. Oscar Anderson helps a student in his Birth of a Flute class. O...