If you were to stand in a central location on Concordia’s campus – by the bell tower, in the Knutson Campus Center atrium – on a brisk February day, you would see dozens of Cobbers bedecked in beanies.

Do you know that heparin sodium, a widely used anticoagulant (blood thinner) is a pork-derived product? Unless you’re a biochemist, you probably don’t.

While many use spring break as a chance to visit home or take a vacation, Concordia students also have opportunities to use the time off from class to participate in service-learning trips. Five groups of Cobbers packed into vans and headed out across the country to spend their break building homes with Habitat for Humanity.