Engineers from New Jersey American Water shared their expertise with aspiring seventh and eighth grade engineers from across the state at the National Engineering Week Future Cities Competition, held on Saturday, January 17, on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University.
“Water and the Economy” is the focus of this year’s Future Cities Competition. The students, who [...]

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Medical Terminology: A Handbook for the Skin Care Specialist explores medical terminology in the spa and medical office setting, starting with basic language and moving into the more advanced. The reader will benefit from the in-depth look into the roots of words, the Latin and Greek languages they come from, and learn roots making [...]

Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a new approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to to

Ten outstanding students pursuing careers in the beef industry have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship provided by the CME Group and the National Cattlemen’s Foundation. The CME Group has sponsored this scholarship program for 18 years.
Each scholarship winner wrote a 750-word essay that identified key issues confronting the beef industry, and suggested [...]

From 10 to 14 October, the Frankfurt Book Fair 2007 is host to the world of literature in six exhibition halls. Once again, this year the organisers expect over 280, 000 visitors during the five days of the Fair.
At the world’s fair for the book and media industry, one can anticipate more than 7, 000 [...]

Versant today announced that it will grant a 2-year scholarship to a talented student pursuing a masters degree in computer science specializing in Databases/Information systems at Hamburg University in Germany. In launching the new “Versant Advanced Database Scholarship”, Versant, with its European Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, and Hamburg University will jointly select a talented student [...]

A bill before Congress would cut billions in federal subsidies for the student loan industry and increase the amount of money available for needy students – with funding coming from the pockets of lenders. The industry is under assault after reports of unethical financial relationships between universities and private lenders.
Loan industry defenders say the [...]

With the student-loan industry coming under harsh criticism, the House easily approved a bill yesterday aimed at curbing conflicts of interest and corrupt practices in college lending.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been leading an investigation into the $85 billion industry that has turned up evidence that some colleges received a percentage of loan [...]

Investigations by U.S. lawmakers into the student loan industry expanded as Reps George Miller, D-Calif., and chairman of the House education committee, sent a letter to the inspector general of the Education Department asking for a review of the department’s policies against conflicts of interest and the financial disclosure forms of employees overseeing the federal [...]