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Camilla Bridge earns the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence.

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On April 28, biology lab instructor & coordinator Camilla Bridge, was celebrated by Maine Campus Compact as they honored her with the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. This award recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding Maine faculty members who make public service an integral part of their curriculum, create reciprocal partnerships with communities, and advocate for service-learning.

We couldn’t agree more with their choice. Congratulations, Camilla!

If you know Camilla, then you know she is passionate about biology and engaging her students in service and community action. And Camilla has participated many times with the College’s International Service trips to Guatemala and Haiti through Partners in Development (PID). The most recent time was this past December.

Camilla Bridge takes a selfie with Guatemalan children while on a service trip in Guatemala.Fellow Biology assistant professor, Lenore DiFiore, says that Camilla worked tirelessly to co-develop and co-teach a course at SJC, Public Health in Developing Countries. The mission was to design a needed service learning project that would benefit PID and be sustainable. This service portion happened over the winter break, where Camilla and 8 students traveled to Guatemala to study anemia in an area of the country. She and the students screened over 400 people for anemia, taught anemia education, supplied 60 families with a small iron cooking tool, called “the lucky iron fish”, and demonstrated to the villagers how to use it in cooking. The students provided a cooking demonstration using a recipe they created that used local ingredients, would be palatable to the region, and be simple to create as well.

“I’m really proud of our Public Health students for pushing themselves outside their comfort zones and grateful to Lenore (DiFiore) for her efforts in co-developing and teaching Public Health in a Developing Country.” — Camilla Bridge