MARQUETTE — “Robust” is a word that Innovate Marquette SmartZone likes to use, and so does its new director of entrepreneurial outreach and services. Dave Kronberg came on board in mid-September with the main roles of directing the operations of Invent@NMU and supporting Innovate ...
GLASGOW, Scotland — More than 100 countries pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has been made and broken before. Britain hailed the commitment as the first big achievement of the U.N. climate conference known as COP26 taking place this month in the Scottish city of Glasgow. But campaigners say they need to see the details to understand its full impact. The U.K. government said it has received commitments from leaders representing more than 85% of the world’s forests to ...
MARQUETTE — Lori Blaker has achieved tremendous success in the business world, but she’s particularly proud of her work helping women in a place where they sorely need a positive outside influence: Afghanistan. In fact, it earned her the 2018 Oslo Business for Peace Award, dubbed “the ...
LANSING — Michigan’s high school graduation rate is projected to drop 15% between 2019 and 2037, one of the largest declines in the nation. It is largely a consequence of the drop in birth rates during the Great Recession, according to a report by the Western Interstate Commission for ...
MARQUETTE — Michigan author Kara L. Swanson’s life changed dramatically in 1996 when a devastating car accident left her with a traumatic brain injury. However, that — and losing her job at the Detroit Institute of Arts, her catering career, her home — hasn’t stopped her from ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In a twist of fate — something he’s become acquainted with — Bloomington artist Joe Lee’s personal history has led him to create a graphic novel he hopes will tell the story of a Holocaust survivor who forgave her tormentors. The loss of two special people in Lee’s life inspired his first graphic novel, “Forgiveness: The story of Eva Kor, survivor of the Auschwitz twin experiments.” “This is not exactly a story that hasn’t been told before,” Lee said recently while sitting in his backyard garden. “But this is a way I thought I could tell ...
