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Seven area schools receive funding for technology needs | Education
NORFOLK — Seven area schools were recipients of funding in the latest round of allocations from the Smart Schools Bond Act that provides financial assistance for technology needs. Gouverneur Central School received $334,886, which includes $331,200 for classroom technology. Heuvelton Central School received $195,371 for classroom technology. Lowville Academy and Central School received $281,209, which …
SUNY Geneseo named leader in mental health literacy | Lifestyles
SUNY Geneseo was recently named a “Campus Leader in Mental Health Literacy” by Kognito, a health simulation technology company. Geneseo was recognized as one of 17 school districts and institutions across K-12 and higher education who have “demonstrated unwavering commitment to supporting student mental health.” Since 2016, Geneseo has utilized Kognito At-Risk, an online interactive …
NeoGraft hair restoration technology comes to Watertown | Business
WATERTOWN — A new hair restoration technology, previously unavailable in the area, has come to Watertown to restore not only natural hair, but the confidence of patients who undergo the procedure. NeoGraft NNY, run out of the Center for Sight location at 1815 State St., offers NeoGraft, a new, automated device to facilitate the harvesting …
BlueCross, ETSU create BlueSky Institute to address shortage of technology graduates
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and East Tennessee State University have partnered to create the BlueSky Institute to address a shortage of technology graduates in the state. The BlueSky Institute is an accelerated program in which students earn a bachelor’s degree from ETSU in two years. The first cohort will be 15 to 20 students taught …
Watertown’s New York Air Brake building a ‘bridge to future’ in train brake technology | Business
WATERTOWN — A city business will be riding in the forefront of the anticipated growth of the passenger rail system industry in the coming years because of its technological advancement regarding brakes. Watertown-based New York Air Brake along with its sister company, Westminster, Md.-based Knorr Brake Company, have developed the EE-26™ brake system, engineered for …
Progress 2021: North country health providers talk working through pandemic, looking to future | Public Service News
WATERTOWN — In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health care centers were learning about the virus in real time. While there was confusion and fear, there was also the underlying notion that society needed to move forward and work together to make it through the largest public health crisis in 100 …
GM, Cruise partner with Microsoft to speed up self-driving EV technology
General Motors and its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise will partner with Microsoft to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles, the companies said Tuesday. Additionally, GM will use Microsoft as its preferred public cloud provider, working with it to improve the automaker’s advances in digital technology and robotics. Microsoft joins GM, Honda and institutional investors in …
Hamilton County students develop adaptive technology with Spotify product manager
Sukriti Chadha, a product manager for Spotify specializing in adaptive technology, is passionate about encouraging students to pursue careers in technology. When she left Manhattan to stay with a friend in Chattanooga during the pandemic, she took an opportunity to work with Red Bank High School students to design projects that would help a peer …
Tracking prescriptions with technology: EirSystems CTO Kenston O’Neal helps forge new tools to fight fraud and abuse
Kenston O’Neal says he always has been a tech-oriented person. “Even growing up as a kid when I got my first computer, I took it apart to see if I could put it back together,” he says. “My mom said ‘You better put it back together and it better work,’ and I did and it …
BREAKING NEWS: TBI Investigating Officer-Involved Shooting in Hawkins County | WJHL
Posted: Nov 25, 2020 / 12:19 AM EST / Updated: Nov 25, 2020 / 12:24 AM EST HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – TBI is assisting in the invesitgation of an officer-involved shooting that happened Tuesday evening in Hawkins County. According to officials, the incident happened just before 8:30 p.m. when a deputy with the Hawkins …
