NEW YORK — Cornell announced that it plans to combine industry and academia with a new corporate co-location building on its Roosevelt Island campus. This will help facilitate Cornell Tech’s mission by fostering interactions between students, faculty and industry professionals.
BREINIGSVILLE, Pa. — Parkland School District officials applied to the state of Pennsylvania in 2010 to receive partial reimbursement for the $16 million loan necessary to complete construction on the Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A new facility for the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University, to be named the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology, will begin construction soon. This 11,000-square-foot facility will ensure that the university remains a strong participant in the discovery, development and implementation of research to control insects in and around homes and other structures.
GREENVILLE, N.C. — The UNC Center for Civil Rights (CCR) is representing a group of African American parents and the Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children in a case concerning racial segregation in a North Carolina school district. This district — Pitt County Schools (PCS) — put a plan into action in 2011 that redistributed students throughout the district for 2012. This redistribution left many schools with a disproportionately high number of minority students.
PHILADELPHIA — Surviving with a $304 million deficit, teachers, staff and education activists of the School District of Philadelphia are calling the funding shortage of area schools a crisis.
In a letter addressed to Education Secretary Arne Duncan from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and education activist Diane Ravitch, Duncan is pressured to intervene.
Robert Alcalá recently joined GLHN Architects & Engineers Inc. as the electrical engineering department manager. GLHN, based in Tucson, Ariz., provides a variety of services in architectural, mechanical, electrical, civil and technology engineering.
Flexi-Felt from Stanley Hardware offers a solution to protecting floors. The product line eliminates the aggravation of frequently replacing felt pads and leg tips that usually wear down or fall off, causing damage to expensive floors, even in school facilities. Made with superior high-density wool felt and industrial strength adhesive, Flexi-Felt pads are softer and more compression resistant than similar products, so the felt stays on and lasts at least three times longer than standard felt pads.
DAVIS, Calif.