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The Conti Professorship program brings hospitality industry leaders and scholars to serve as guest lecturers and mentors with students in the Hospitality Management program, as well as to connect with faculty members and researchers in the school.

Business leaders in Maine are working to raise awareness of the growing number of climate change-related job opportunities. The states recent approval of a new offshore wind energy industry and growing solar industry will require a steady pipeline of STEM-trained workers but not necessarily those with a four-year college degree. Phillip Jordan, vice president of the BW Research Partnership, said Mainers would benefit from educational opportunities highlighting the certifications and skills req...

New federal legislation aims to help farmers in Maine and elsewhere share their knowledge of conservation practices as they face an increasing number of climate change-related weather events. The "Farmer To Farmer Education Act" would help build and support farmer-led education networks so new farmers can learn from those more experienced in coping with droughts or floods. Erin Foster West - policy coordination and management director at the National Young Farmers Coalition...

By Janie Ekere for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Kentucky News Connection for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration A new report from Invest Appalachia, a self-described social investment fund, looks at ways to bring economic development to Central Appalachia as climate change increasingly determines where Americans live. The report released in May analyzed emerging climate data from Appalachia. According to its findings, Central Appalachian states like K...

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission has adopted a new rule requiring direct measurement of methane emissions at oil and gas sites, a move welcomed by environmental and local government groups, and industry. Joe Antus - the executive director of the Signal Tech Coalition - said the new rule will help lower the amount of methane, the primary component of natural gas, lost at oil and gas sites. It can also kickstart a key tactic for turning the tide on climate change. ...

X looks to beat rivals such as Meta, TikTok and Snap in bringing a super app to the U.S. for the first time, but digital advertising experts are skeptical it can overcome the hurdles ahead.

Media execs: Twitter needs brand safety, not new bells and whistles. From PR Week

Dave Willner started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making up their rules as they went along. As the companys head of content policy, it was Willner who wrote Facebooks first official community standards more than a decade ago, turning what he has said was an informal one-page list that mostly boiled down to a ban on "Hitler and naked people" into what is now a voluminous catalog of slurs, crimes and other grotesqueries that are banned across all of ...

A group of Asian investors including Gulf Energy and HK's New World Development are joining a sustainability-focused coalition.

In this senior role, Anna will oversee the philanthropic mission of the Foundation, which aims to support the hotel industrys current workforce as well as aspiring hospitality professionals through the disbursements of scholarships, workforce development programs, and united efforts to eradicate human trafficking.