Photo: Keegan Pruente, left, works with Laura Kilpatrick, right, during Keegan’s piano lessons on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in Independence, Mo. It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon
Photo: Bill Cutter Memorial Scholarship Recipients (in order from right to left): Shane Begley, Timothy Gelfer, Paul Fulop, Faith Vasquez, Mark-George Soerheide, Aidan McGlasson, Samuel Low. Not Pictured: Kyla Ramos, Justin Lenzie, Joel Harper. Cutter Aviation’s President and CEO, Will Cutter, hosted a breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, dedicated to honoring 10 outstanding students from Embry-Riddle
Photo: State lawmakers hear from economist Alan Maguire on the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 (photo by Cameron Arcand) Questions regarding the universal Empowerment Scholarship Account program were front and center at an Arizona House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday. “This is not a forum to advocate for or against
Photo: Piedmont Elementary School math teacher Cassie Holbrooks helps a small group of fourth-grade students with a three-digit subtraction problem in Piedmont, Ala. While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, student performance in a rural Alabama school district was soaring. Piedmont City schools notched significant improvement
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University claimed the No. 4 spot nationwide among Aerospace Engineering degree programs with a doctoral option, in this year’s “U.S. News & World Report” ranking of residential campuses. This ranking placed Embry-Riddle among the global elite in engineering institutions, just below Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, respectively. In addition,
Photo: The Salt River A long-term partnership between Northern Arizona University and the Salt River Project is providing innovative solutions to the critical questions surrounding the power and water grids in Arizona. Researchers, including both graduate and undergraduate students, examined a variety of ways to protect water quality, especially as it related to wildfire, how