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ROCHESTER, MN.--As the Med City expands, opportunities for builders may seem limitless. However, Mayor Kim Norton says the same couldnt be said for women of color looking into construction careers

ROCHESTER, MN.–In January 2022 Bloomberg Philanthropies selected the City of Rochester as a Global Mayors Challenge winner of a one million dollar grant to create career pathways for women of

Overview The Center for Environmental Health (“CEH”) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business practices that are safe for public health and the environment.

X University’s department of Architectural Science launched a Project Management in the Built Environment Program that prepares graduate students for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The interdisciplinary graduate program of project management in the built environment provides a master of applied science (MASc) degree or a master of project management (MPM) degree. The […]

Above: Listen to a version of this story by Jessica Seldner that aired on WUFT-FM. Some six thousand miles separate the cities of Gainesville, Florida, and Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq, but the two are ready to reignite a long-distance friendship. The two cities are participants in a program called Sister Cities International and on Monday morning signed a renewed sister city agreement. Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe and Ali Tatar, the governor of Duhok, signed an agreement that establishes mutual fri...