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Preparing your home for hurricane season — and how to handle hurricane…

Terri Williams Waste Management & Environmental

The pandemic has delayed or canceled many routine events, but hurricane season has elected not to take a break just because we’re in a pandemic. In fact, the National Hurricane Center is predicting a busy hurricane season from the end of August through early September. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself and your home during hurricane season.

How to thoroughly clean high-traffic floors

Kendall Youngworth Facilities & Grounds

If you work in a facility that experiences a lot of traffic, there are safety concerns that could pose a threat to the health of your staff, business partners and customers. Inevitably, foot traffic can track in debris, germs and microbes that can spread throughout the facility. Therefore, it is important to keep your floors as clean as possible. In this article, we will discuss what should be considered when looking for appropriate flooring and cleaning solutions that are both functional and help promote a safe and healthy environment.

Tips for safer property management during COVID-19

Sam Radbil Facilities & Grounds

Many people are leery of changes, moves or disruptions to their routines during COVID-19 and with good reason. Information may be difficult to distill from regular news sources, so here are seven tips to help you manage a property during this crisis.

US payrolls add 1.8 million jobs; jobless rate drops to 10.2%

Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Employers added 1.8 million nonfarm new hires in July, down from 4.8 million jobs created in June, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. July’s rate of unemployment dropped to 10.2% from June’s 11.1%. July’s numbers indicate the reopening of commerce closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Most major worker groups saw their unemployment rates fall.

Optimism beckons for 2020-21 deer hunting season in Texas

John McAdams Recreation & Leisure

It’s always nice to get a little bit of good news, and that’s especially true with everything that’s been going on lately. Though 2020 has been an eventful year to this point, hunting season is fast approaching in the Lone Star State and things are looking great for both whitetail and mule deer. Spring rains came just in time to provide plentiful food for wildlife, which should bode well for both fawn recruitment and antler growth.

3D printing: Making biocompatible, sterilizable plastic and metal components…

Micah Chaban Medical & Allied Healthcare

The medical industry is changing quickly. While there have been major advances, medical device manufacturers still need viable options for manufacturing devices and equipment both to patients and healthcare providers in an efficient, low-cost manner. Many device manufacturers still use traditional production methods, but 3D printing is making it possible to create biocompatible and sterilizable components at a pace that is fast and inexpensive.

Getting grounded: Implications for business

Linda Popky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

We may all be ready to be done with the coronavirus, but the virus isn’t ready to be done with us. As a result, some of the short-term changes to how and where we work may turn out to be more longer-term than we ever expected. Not only do we need to maintain social distance and wear masks when out and about near others, but we also have to face the fact that for the most part, we’ve all been grounded. What do you need to do to be as effective as possible given these constraints?

Down on the farm: 6 of the US’ best agricultural museums

Dave G. Houser Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

If you've ever tended a backyard garden or tried to raise a few chickens, you know that farming is hard, dirty work. Keeping America's kitchens supplied during the coronavirus pandemic has made things even harder for farmers — earning these most essential of essential workers the respect and appreciation of an entire nation. For those interested in learning more about American farms and ranches, there are a number of farming and agricultural museums around the country. Here are six of them.

Leading with equity to support our most vulnerable students

Sheilamary Koch Education

Harm to our nation's most vulnerable children is likely to extend far beyond missed learning. New evidence reveals that staggering numbers of students could fall months to a full year behind, be locked out of experiential science learning and drop out of school. With the real threat of racial disparity increasing exponentially, educators and advocates across sectors are rallying to make equity the center of plans for next school year and beyond.

US employers add 4.8 million jobs in June; jobless rate drops to 11.1%

Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Employers added 4.8 million nonfarm jobs in June after hiring 2.5 million workers in May, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. June’s unemployment rate fell to 11.1% versus May’s 13.3%. Improvement in the labor market for the second straight month was due to a partial resuming of economic activity after nationwide business closures, notably in the hospitality and leisure sectors in March and April, to slow the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. That shutdown led to the loss of 22.2 million jobs.

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