Recent Articles

• How to create a social media marketing plan in 5 steps

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  The average marketer spends more than 11 hours per week on social media, while small business owners typically invest 6 to 10 hours. What seems like a staggering amount of time is actually time well spent.

• Drawing is an integral learning tool

  Pamela Hill Education

  In schools, the act of drawing is often pigeonholed to specific areas of academics and instruction. It is observed in lower elementary grades as a constant, but less and less as students progress through higher level grades.

• Powerful gene editing could make pigs perfect organ donors

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  By modifying 62 genes in pig embryos, scientists think they may have found a way to make pigs suitable organ donors for humans. Led by Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church, the work was presented Oct. 5 at a meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Church and his colleagues spoke about using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to inactivate 62 porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) in pig embryos. Embedded in all pigs' genomes, the viruses cannot be treated or neutralized once present in a human.

• Cutting-edge plastic electronic devices coming of age

  Don Rosato Engineering

  E/E devices keyed to polymer-based technology are being developed for the nanophotonics market that could make computers and the Internet 100 times faster. Researchers at Samsung have discovered a method that could allow a single crystal of graphene to retain its electrical and mechanical properties across a large area. The process could allow graphene to be used at its full potential in future electronic devices.

• If processed meats cause cancer, what should the food industry do?

  Linchi Kwok Food & Beverage

  Here is the biggest news I heard last week: ​The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that processed meats — such as bacon, sausage, ham, and hot dogs — can cause colon cancer. Now, for the first time processed meats are considered as dangerous as tobacco and asbestos. Red meats in general, including beef, pork and lamb, are also found to be "probably carcinogenic" to people.

• Walgreens: Happy, healthy — and huge

  Jason Poquette Pharmaceutical

  Walgreens has been on something of a growth spurt lately, and the latest proposed acquisition of the nearly 4,600 Rite Aid stores suggests their appetite for enlargement isn't slowing down. If the deal goes through, the result will be a more than 50 percent increase in the number of Walgreens stores (to about 12,700). This will put them well ahead of CVS (roughly 9,500 after the Target deal), their next closest competitor.

• I hate football: Handling an employee who doesn’t fit in

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  There are those who are sent to HR and those who voluntarily show up. Of that latter group, I have seen some pretty strange complaints, requests and concerns. Recently, I had someone come to complain about football. The beef: All anyone does on Monday is talk about football, and this guy has no interest in it. He feels like he has to find a way to talk about it and believes he will be alienated if he does not participate.

• Fostering reading through student choice in high school

  Brian Stack Education

  Like many Generation Xers and millennials, my high school English classroom memories stem from my experiences reading popular required readings such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye.

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s impact on small businesses in Canada

  Katherine Radin Civil & Government

  After years of negotiation, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was signed this fall by 12 Pacific Rim countries to open up global trading opportunities. Not since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have countries seen such an impactful trade block. While NAFTA consists of an agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico, the TPP represents about 40 percent of the world's gross domestic product.

• 4 steps to attainable financial goals

  David B. Mandell, JD, MBA, and Carole Foos, CPA Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  ​Imagine you're planning a family vacation. Your spouse wants to drive, while you want to book a flight. If you're planning a trip to the campground near your house, it would be ridiculous to fly. If you're planning a trip to Europe, driving is out of the question. Your destination largely influences how you will get there, and it's the same with financial planning.

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