For the Intelligencer Published 3:02 pm CDT, Thursday, October 18, 2018 SIUE School of Engineering SIUE School of Engineering Photo: SIUE Photo Photo: SIUE Photo Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 SIUE School of Engineering SIUE School of Engineering Photo: SIUE Photo SIUE Department of Civil Engineering boosted by industry support 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Industry donations are supporting curriculum advancement in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s (SOE) Department of Civil Engineering, as it prepares industry leaders who will excel in an ever-changing world. MiTek USA, Inc. has contributed $10,000 in direct support of the Department of Civil Engineering’s Timber Design … [Read more...] about SIUE Department of Civil Engineering boosted by industry support
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A year after Charlottesville, hate marches on
By Deepa Bharath | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: August 10, 2018 at 5:42 pm | UPDATED: August 10, 2018 at 6:06 pm It’s been a year since hundreds of white nationalists, carrying everything from semi-automatic rifles and Nazi symbols to Confederate flags and tiki torches, marched on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, chanting “Jews will not replace us” and threatening people of color. The rally, which started on the night of Aug. 11 and continued through the next day, culminated in tragedy — as a self-proclaimed white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of counter protesters, injuring 19 and killing one. Separately, two Virginia state troopers died in a helicopter crash while en route to provide more security and help quell the violence. Though Charlottesville resembled the sort of race-themed conflicts that were common prior to the Civil Rights era, experts today see the Charlottesville rally as a … [Read more...] about A year after Charlottesville, hate marches on
‘Agents of change:’ A year with the UMBC program shaping some of the nation’s best and most diverse scientists
Adrian Davey was sitting in the back of his church when he first heard of the program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, that would change his life.Davey, then a senior at Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick, was finishing an impressive high school career: 3.97 grade point average, intern at the National Cancer Institute, peer tutor with the National Honor Society, defensive end on the football team, captain on the track team. Now he was planning to be a chemical engineer, and was considering the public university powerhouses Virginia Tech and the University of North Carolina.Tanya Davis, a fellow congregant at First Missionary Baptist Church, had some advice: “You should apply to the Meyerhoff program.”Over the last 30 years, the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC has graduated more than 1,100 mostly African-American students in science and engineering, providing money, academic guidance, research experience, mentoring and a sense of family to … [Read more...] about ‘Agents of change:’ A year with the UMBC program shaping some of the nation’s best and most diverse scientists
A year in Trump Country
(This story has been optimized for offline reading on our apps. For a richer experience, you can find the full version of this story here. An Internet connection is required.) After eight years of displeasure with the presidency of Barack Obama and faced with a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Dennis Schminke of Austin, Minn., didn’t have to think hard about how he would vote in 2016. A retired corporate manager, a staunch conservative and a county Republican official, he supported the New York businessman. Since then, there has not been a day that Schminke wished that Clinton, rather than Trump, were president. But week by week, month by month, as he has watched the events of Trump’s presidency, he has become increasingly conflicted and concerned about what he has seen. The turmoil, he said, has often left him feeling “motion sick.” By early spring, he expressed a different sentiment. He had not fully broken, but he was no longer as … [Read more...] about A year in Trump Country
Audible’s founder talks about selling his company to Amazon for $300 million, bonding with Jeff Bezos, and how he managed to have a ‘nontoxic’ midlife crisis (AMZN)
Richard Feloni, provided by Published 12:34 pm, Sunday, April 22, 2018 Audible Audible CEO Don Katz founded the digital audiobook company in 1995, launched with one of the world's first digital audio players. The company made it through the late 1990s tech bubble and the death of a CEO Katz hired. Katz sold Audible to Amazon in 2008 for $300 million, keeping it largely independent and retaining his role as CEO. He shared what he learned from switching careers so late, and why he bonded with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Don Katz sounds more like a college English professor than a tech CEO. He's obsessed with literature and writing. And it's why he started Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, in 1995. "It was all about the stories, and it was all about the voice of the stories," Katz said on Business Insider's podcast, "Success! How I Did It." "I was always an ear-driven writer, and I kind of heard things when I read it." Katz has been running a tech company for over a … [Read more...] about Audible’s founder talks about selling his company to Amazon for $300 million, bonding with Jeff Bezos, and how he managed to have a ‘nontoxic’ midlife crisis (AMZN)