Students can learn how to manage electronic medical records, create mobile applications, extract methane gas from landfills and acquire and apply GIS data through new program offerings that begin this fall at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
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Press release: 23 liberal arts colleges meeting at UNCA as part of National Science Foundation effort to strengthen undergraduate research
More than 100 faculty and administrators from colleges around the country are gathering at UNC Asheville today through Thursday for a conference aimed at strengthening undergraduate research in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Press release: Health departments, organizations in WNC and statewide participating in National HIV Testing Day today
In North Carolina, nearly a half of all new sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, occur in young people between 15 and 24 years old. The outlook for people who are HIV positive is dramatically different than it was when the disease was first identified 30 years ago, but the epidemic is far from over.
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Unemployment rate drops in May in all but three WNC counties — Buncombe, Jackson and McDowell
With a rate of 7.1 percent, Polk County had Western North Carolina’s lowest unemployment rate and the fifth-lowest rate statewide in May. Graham County had the highest unemployment rate in WNC and the third-highest in North Carolina last month with a rate of 14.2 percent.
Posted inEconomy, Education, Environment
Press release: Green curriculum of Forest Service’s Job Corps expands opportunities for graduates in WNC, nationwide
The Oconaluftee Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Cherokee has implemented green training and conservation ideals across each of its training programs including in forestry conservation and wildland firefighting, office and business administration, and health occupations.