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Companies to offer biomass internships
SYRACUSE — Local college students will get the chance to intern for eight Upstate companies this summer in the areas of biomass and bioenergy. The
SU institute working on program in Ghana
SYRACUSE — The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University is helping to export a program providing entrepreneurship training to people with disabilities to Ghana.
New Le Moyne certificate offers education on government contracting
SYRACUSE — A new program at Le Moyne College aims to help some of the area’s defense-contract manufacturers fill a need and set students on a promising career path. Le Moyne launched a new certificate in government systems management last fall. Local defense contractors, including SRC, Inc. and Lockheed Martin, helped develop the content. The
State to audit health insurers’ rate increase requests
The information that health insurers use to ask the state for permission to raise rates will be subject to the scrutiny of auditors, the New
Health-care employers face tough time finding qualified workers
Health-care providers continue to struggle to find skilled candidates or job openings, particularly specialized, technical positions. More than 37 percent of health-care employers have jobs
Binghamton University named a top value among public colleges
BINGHAMTON — The Princeton Review named Binghamton University the nation’s number four “Best Value Public” college for 2012. The Massachusetts–based education-services company profiles Binghamton University in its newly published book, “The Best Value Colleges: 2012,” and on its website www.princetonreview.com/best-value-colleges.aspx. In the profile of Binghamton, the editors at The Princeton Review praised the school for
Survey: U.S. workers’ confidence about retirement savings rose in 2011
U.S. workers are becoming more confident that they will have enough money to retire comfortably, but know they still have work to do, according to a recently released survey from Towers Watson, a global employee-benefits consulting firm. In 2011, 68 percent of survey respondents reported they were very or somewhat confident they will have enough
AMRI posts loss in Q4, full year
AMRI (NASDAQ: AMRI), a contract researcher and manufacturer in the pharmaceutical sector, lost $24.4 million, or 81 cents a share, in the fourth quarter. That’s
SUNYIT adds civil engineering program
MARCY — The State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) at Utica-Rome will offer a new bachelor’s degree program in civil engineering starting
Report: Health-care law increased insurance coverage of 19- to 25-year-olds
The 2010 federal health-care reform law has increased the portion of young adults with health-insurance coverage, according to a national report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). The percentage of individuals ages 19-25 with private health-insurance coverage rose from 51 percent in 2010 to 55.8 percent in the first six months of 2011, according
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