The front line

ISU Dining cook Dee Johnson hands a bagged meal to student

Photo by Christopher Gannon.

ISU Dining cook Dee Johnson (center), hands off prepared meals to Iowa State senior Gabriel Blandin during pickup service at Friley Windows dining hall. Johnson's colleague, cook Nancy Croker, looks on from a safe distance. Dining staff are among the hundreds of essential university employees working on campus during the COVID-19 pandemic.