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2023 Farm Families of the Year

Authored by: University of Minnesota Extension (Minnesota) — July 11th, 2023 — Families and growers from all of Minnesota’s 87 counties will be represented as the University of Minnesota honors them in the 2023 Farm Family of the Year ceremony. This is the first time in recent memory that every county has selected agricultural leaders for this recognition. The families will be recognized in a ceremony beginning at 1:15 p.m.,

John Heinz Dissertation Award

(Minneapolis MN) — April 28th, 2022 — Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, is the recipient of the National Academy of Social Insurance’s 2022 John Heinz Dissertation Award. Fashaw-Walters’ dissertation, “Inequities in Home Health Access, Outcomes, and the Impact of Public Reporting,” was submitted for her doctorate in Health Services Research at Brown University. Kali Thomas, an associate professor at Brown