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PAWS Your Stress at the Library

Kaitlyn Bowers, Video Director Dec 10, 2019

Finals week is here, and the Thomas. G. Carpenter library started it off right by giving students a chance to play with puppies between exams. The library held a PAWS Your Stress day, where students...

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Students take advantage of the “PAWS Your Stress” event while others wait for a turn to pet and play with the service dogs in-training from Canine Companions. 
Photo by Michael Herrera

Students decompress and relax at PAWS Your Stress event

Drew McDonald and Jack Cunha Apr 23, 2019

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gexqZA3YyRQ[/embedyt] This time of the semester, students are spending countless hours at the Thomas G. Carpenter Library in order to best prepare for their exams....

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PAWS Your Stress Fall 2018

PAWS Your Stress gives students a pause during Finals Week

Aisling Glocke Dec 4, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXAm6satn-0[/embedyt] Video by Aisling Glocke On Monday, December 3, students were treated to a canine surprise with the semesterly event PAWS Your Stress. The...

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India, a golden retriever and labrador mix, is being raised by Kelly Gates, UNF professor, and her husband. 
Photo by Morgan Purvis

Finals week is ruff, why not paws your stress?

Carly Kramer Apr 23, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWn7TMnGis[/embedyt] Finals week can take a toll on students, and that’s why therapy and service dogs in training have returned to the Thomas G. Carpenter...

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Photo courtesy of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library Twitter

Guide to finals week events

Andy Castro Dec 3, 2017

With finals week in full effect, students have multiple activities they can attend to relieve their stress. Here are some of the events going on around campus: PAWS your stress On Monday, Dec....

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Cute pups make finals week bearable

Cute pups make finals week bearable

Alexandra Torres-Perez Apr 27, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhbJi2OfC-k During this time of  misery, despair and self-hatred for having to cram for finals, students’ faces lit up as they walked into the library and saw six beautiful...

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Photo by Tiffany Salameh

Ospreys “Paw”sed their study sessions for pups during finals week

Courtney Stringfellow Apr 25, 2016
Ospreys flocked to the first floor of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library on Monday, April 25 to take a break from finals and spend some time with therapy dogs in training.
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India, a golden retriever and labrador mix, is being raised by Kelly Gates, UNF professor, and her husband. 
Photo by Morgan Purvis

‘PAWS your Stress’ returns to campus

Kalee Ball Apr 27, 2015
UNF’s Public Relations Department partnered with Canine Companions for Independence, a national nonprofit organization that works to train retrievers, to bring puppies on campus for the third semester in a row...
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