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Officials dedicate NMU BEAR Center

The North Wind

MARQUETTE, MI— NMU dedicated its new Behavior Education Assessment and Research—or BEAR—Center Thursday.

The center is a university clinic and research facility overseen by the Department of Psychological Sciences. It provides behavior and learning support for children, adolescents, and adults in the community with intellectual or developmental disabilities and/or traumatic brain injury.

Children with difficult or problematic behaviors are also offered family and school support.

The BEAR Center is next to The Rice Paddy on Presque Isle Avenue. More information is available by calling 906-227-2994.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.