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Millions of high school students set for success: Celebrating Career and…

Sheilamary Koch Education

"I learned the formula for success," says Ian Solano, reflecting on what he gained from his high school career and technical education (CTE) classes. Now a business and marketing junior at the University of Southern California, Ian articulately shares how the hands-on experience of completing real-world projects and presenting them to “clients” in high school taught him a process he’s applied to internships and his college coursework. Solano is part of the changing face of high school vocational education.

How blockchain technology can benefit your patients

Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare Administration

As a physician or administrator, it's crucial that you keep patient transactions and data easily shareable and totally secure. Blockchain technology may be just the right way for your organization to do it. In a blockchain system, data is linked in a segmented system that makes for ease of sharing, eliminates the risk of inaccurate data being kept in a patient ledger, and automatically distributes to a set network of recipients. Blockchain is currently being used most in healthcare payment applications. However, as it matures further, it is being adapted for virtually every healthcare need.

Amazon’s all-conquering education, labor visions come under fire

Michelle R. Matisons Education

Big Tech, including Amazon, has been asked to release acquisitions from the past decade. There's increasing pressure on the Seattle-based company, as it contests losing a Pentagon cloud contract to Microsoft while continuing its ubiquitous global reach. Amazon is also known for warehouse safety violations. Fifteen senators, including presidential contenders Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have asked the company to publish serious worker injuries. Given the company's labor reputation, how qualified is Amazon to have a strong presence in U.S. classrooms?

Infographic: STEM is on the rise. How can schools help?

Brian Wallace Education

Over the last decade, the U.S. has created nearly 2 million new STEM jobs — but students’ math and science scores continue to lag behind other nations, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). STEM includes many ever-evolving and expanding fields, and success requires the ability to continue to learn and adapt to new situations. Raising a STEM workforce starts long before college. So, where do schools begin?

How tech trends will affect homebuyers

Terri Williams Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

When searching for a home, buyers used to have three options. They could search the classified section, drive around neighborhoods looking for sale signs, or enlist a realtor to find available properties. However, these methods were time-consuming and often produced high failure rates — in part because sellers and their agents were likely to highlight a home's positives and downplay any negative features. "But now, homebuyers have so many new ways to search for their perfect home," says Jerry Clum, founder and CEO at Hommati.com, a searchable real estate website that uses technology to help agents promote their listings to potential buyers.

Visionary vs. manager: Why both are necessary in business

Anne Rose Business Management, Services & Risk Management

We bring our unique personalities into the workplace. Some of us enjoy creating new ideas, thinking about future improvements, and experimenting to improve matters. Others are the polar opposite. These are the people who enjoy taming chaos, managing the status quo, and streamlining processes. As I've mentioned in previous articles, all organizations need both these types of people because the balance is where most progress occurs. When one type of thinking dominates the other in a company, a failed outcome is predictable.

Infographic: It’s 2020, is your business AI-ready?

Brian Wallace Science & Technology

One in three business leaders believe AI will have the greatest impact on their business in the next year, but few are acting on this knowledge. So, how can your enterprise get ahead of the competition with artificial intelligence? Find out more with this infographic.

Proposed federal budget boosts nuclear production, ignores social costs

Michelle R. Matisons Civil & Government

The proposed Fiscal Year 2021 federal nuclear defense budget, unveiled on Feb. 10, includes new weapons manufacturing. This anticipates more growth while plans still ignore total costs, a concern for those immediately impacted in nuclear weapons laboratory towns like Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Trump administration’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget is $19.8 billion: a 20% increase from last year. But higher numbers than those should be expected as total operational, capital, and social costs loom outside current projected expenditures.

Infographic: The renaissance of email — how responsiveness builds trust

Brian Wallace Communications

While media outlets have been calling email dead for over a decade now, 90% of Americans still use email. Also, 58% of people check their email first thing in the morning — before social media, news sites, or Google. This infographic outlines the importance of email responsiveness, especially when it comes to customer interactions.

Taking on the coronavirus with a new next-generation sequencing strategy

Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus named 2019-nCoV. The outbreak first started in Wuhan, China, but cases have been identified in a growing number of other international locations, including the United States. In the meantime, to monitor how viruses like this one spread and evolve in animal populations, researchers are exploring next-generation sequencing (NGS). However, NGS can be costly and laborious, so geneticists are developing less expensive and more efficient NGS strategies.

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