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TMCC training helps build foods workforce
RENO -- Steve Sposari, president of SK Food Group, has seen his Sparks sandwich-making production facility grow to 480 employees since it opened an 85,000-square-foot facility in 2007. Sposari expects the growth curve to continue — SK Food Group expanded to 150,000 square feet in 2010 — but as ...
UNR museum recovers valuable stolen mineral
RENO -- The Keck Museum, on the Univesity of Nevada, Reno campus, has recovered an valuable mineral which was reported stolen earlier this month. UNR is pleased to be able to tell the public that the stibnite specimen that disappeared from the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering ...
BLOG: Liberal thinkers in Nevada schools hurt minority students
When told that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was an inveterate drunk Abraham Lincoln reportedly replied: “Find out what he’s drinking so I can get some for my other generals.” The public education hierarchy may be facing a similar paradox with the recent announcement that American Indian Public Charter High ...
Changes made to FAFSA form to better assess student need for aid
The U.S. Department of Education announced that beginning with the 2014-2015 federal student aid form, the Department will – for the first time – collect income and other information from a dependent student’s legal parents regardless of the parents’ marital status or gender, if those parents live together. ...
$200K a year paid to best NV teachers proposed
LAS VEGAS -- Paying unusually effective teachers $200,000 a year will transform the teaching profession in Nevada by attracting more top-level talent to the classroom. That’s the bold idea spelled out by former Nevada Superintendent Dr. James W. Guthrie in a new Nevada Policy Research Institute report. Guthrie was ...
No More 'Wooder'? Philly's Odd Accent Evolving
Will Philly no longer be a place where residents drink wooder and root for the Iggles? Gid eowt! A University of Pennsylvania professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. (...
Presidents Praise George W. Bush at New Library
It's a day that brought the current president and the four living former presidents together for the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library in Texas. (April 25)
Before Dedication, Tour of New Bush Library
The Thursday dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center will include a presidential reunion, along with a chance for those who served in the Bush administration to reunite. On Wednesday, members of the press were given a tour. (Ap...
College of Education researchers conduct study on impacts of school uniforms
RENO -- Research on school uniforms is minimal, especially research on students’ opinions about uniforms, and the use of student uniforms is a growing conversation across the country. Two researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno College of Education studied opinions of students in three middle schools in the Washoe ...
UNR simulate large earthquake to test nonstructural systems
RENO -- The grinding, creaking, popping sounds were drowned out by the loud booms of the two-story building being hit by an earthquake – a simulated earthquake in the University of Nevada, Reno’s world-renowned earthquake engineering laboratory. Ceiling tiles fell, water pipes and partition walls rattled and the contents ...
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