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• A look at 7 of the newest travel startups

  Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  It is open season for travel startups. The industry's forecast has fueled the entrepreneurial spirit, motivating existing businesses to innovate and new entrants to introduce their revolutionary ideas. For these companies, the prospect of success seems much higher than it has been before. Here is a quick look at seven of the newest travel startups that promise innovation and enjoyment for travelers this year.

• Strong student housing market produces new decor styles

  Bambi Majumdar Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  The student housing market is looking stronger and stronger. What naturally ensues from this growth is demand for better and nicer interior décor for the sector. Traditionally, student housing décor has always meant low-budget projects. But professionals are giving it another look thanks to the rapid growth of the industry. Let's take a look at the predominant décor trends that are ruling this young sector.

• The craft movement: Coffee

  Lisa McReynolds Smith Food & Beverage

  You can smell it a mile away. That warm, fresh smell of roasted heaven. And the array of flavors, like a well-orchestrated science experiment, will have you wondering, "What is this? And where did it come from?" Craft coffee is not just about those aromatic flavors and tastes. It's about the quality of the life cycle of the beans — from planting/harvesting, to buying quality beans, to carefully roasting those beans, to finally brewing that perfect cup.

• Emergency treatment leads to better outcomes for opioid addicts

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  ​A Yale School of Medicine study finds pharmaceutical treatment in an emergency department leads to better outcomes for opioid addicts than those who are referred for outpatient treatment or simply given a list of treatment services. The study was the first known random trial that compared three options for treating people who seek emergency care for dependence on opioids like hydrocodone, oxycodone, heroin and morphine.

• 3 tips for veterinary technician hiring

  Megan Brashear Pet Care

  After eight years in veterinary technician management, I have learned a great deal about how to select the right technician candidate to work with the team. The biggest lesson — it is less medicine-centered than you might think. I like to say, "I can teach you how to be a good technician. I can’t teach you how to be a good person." Here are three of the most important tips you need to be aware of when hiring a new tech.

• Why is the security profession movement making significant progress?

  Thomas Parker Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Protecting your family, business, friends and neighbors is important to everyone. We want to be safe and secure. Reducing the chances of becoming a victim to a crime is everyone’s responsibility. However, managing the known risk is often made by the key decision-makers of the household or business that we live, work at or visit. Unfortunately, many people in the past relied exclusively on law enforcement for patrolling their areas and properties being the visual deterrent needed to prevent crime.

• Sen. Lamar Alexander identifying strategies for better EHR program

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has been busy, and remains so. Earlier this month, he announced that he would conduct a series of hearings intended to solve problems with the federal government’s six-year-old, $30 billion program meant to encourage adoption of electronic health records at medical offices and hospitals. The hearings come after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services claimed in December 2014 that a quarter of a million physicians had not been able to comply with the program’s second phase and have begun losing 1 percent of their Medicare payments.

• A look at summer MOOCs for K-12 students

  Bambi Majumdar Education

  There was once a time when K-12 students had a huge list of summer homework handed over to them on the last day of school. Today, parents get an exhaustive list of websites for their children to visit over summer to continue learning from. The concepts of flipped classrooms and digitized lessons have brought Massive Online Open Courses into the mainstream. MOOCs are increasingly replacing summer school and bridge programs through platforms that students can easily manage and parents can monitor simultaneously.

• Engage all learners: Make students think visually

  Savanna Flakes Education

  One way to increase student engagement and facilitate deeper learning is to frequently check for student understanding throughout a lesson. Practitioners find many benefits in using frequent assessment techniques to simultaneously check all students' level of understanding. My three favorite technology tools increase student engagement and quickly get students thinking visually so teachers can adjust and differentiate instruction on the spot. All three technology tools are free, teacher-friendly, and the student data can be saved and graphed to facilitate data charts.

• Biomimetic materials: New ways to copy nature

  Adolfo Benedito EngineeringScience & Technology

  In science, we have a predicament of looking for solutions to problems in the most unforeseen ways, thinking that maybe the most complex solution is always the best. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nature, after millions of years of evolution, has always given rise to the most satisfactory solutions. It is the classic methodology of trial and error, known as natural selection. It exists, undoubtedly, as a modern trend to look towards the solutions that nature proposes to us and for us to try to reproduce them.

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