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Entrepreneurship is a crucial piece of community and economic development in our state. Entrepreneurs help drive positive change through innovation and are the backbone of our local economy.
If you want to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your community or region, you don t have to do it alone. During this Community Conversation session you will hear from and learn about several key organizations and individuals driving entrepreneurship across the state, including:
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An Army nurse has received national recognition for her commitment to critically ill patients and their families in the midst of a global health crisis.
Army Lt. Col. DeAnna Hutchings, Brooke Army Medical Center s chief of critical care, is one of 18 nurses – and the only military nurse – to receive the 2021 Circle of Excellence award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Hutchings is also one of only two nurses recognized in Texas. It s incredibly humbling, she said. I work with so many amazing medical professionals and support personnel who work incredibly hard and deserve recognition. It s a surreal feeling to be singled out for this honor.
Military Nurse Gets National Honor for Her Commitment to Critically Ill Patients
Lt. Col. DeAnna Hutchings is getting her moment in the sun for her dedicated service during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the manager of the largest intensive care unit in the Department of Defense, she’s one of 18 nurses to receive this year’s Circle of Excellence Award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. The organization is paying tribute to Hutchings’ unflinching dedication to critically ill families and patients. Over the course of the pandemic, the military nurse has become a leader in patient safety.
A History of Excellence
Send The Windgate Foundation awards a $6.4 million grant to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro for arts education and scholarships.
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Confucius Institutes are billed by the Chinese Communist Party as benevolent language and culture programs and once numbered more than 100 on U.S. campuses across the country. But intelligence officials, members of Congress, and the Trump administration accused them of being an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, used for propaganda and malign foreign influence purposes. In part one of this series,
looks at how the once-ubiquitous institutions have waned over the past couple of years, shrinking in size and disappearing from dozens of colleges including an Ivy League school once seen as its flagship program.
The Chinese Communist Party-linked Confucius Institutes are collapsing in the United States, falling from over 100 to just over a couple dozen in a few years thanks to pressure from the Trump administration and growing concern within the U.S. government about the challenge posed by Chinese influence at U.S. colleges and universities.