Volume 4 Issue 8: Sep 20, 2024

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Sep 26, 2024

Medical Assessment and Readiness System: Womack Army Medical Center hosted MARS system sets a new pace for military clinical research

Dr. Lester Martinez-López, assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, presents Dr. Y. Sammy Choi, and the rest of his Medical Assessment and Readiness System Team, with the Outstanding Research Accomplishment award at the 2024 Military Health ...

Sep 26, 2024

Entrepreneurship as a method: Instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in the next generation of business owners and employees

FTCC has an existing partnership with Maseno University in Kenya and intends to further that collaboration to offerbusiness students additional opportunities for learning through practical experience. Photo by Natasha Brown, FTCC Media Services.Entre ...

Sep 26, 2024

Publisher's note: Let the rates drop

By the time you read this, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve and the rest of the Federal Reserve board will have undoubtedly lowered the federal reserve borrowing rate by at least 25 basis points or a 1/4 percent. Some expect it to be a ...

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Hemp hemp hurray: Local farmer and business man seeks to educate the broader community about the many uses for hemp

Keith Dunn began farming hemp in 2017. A few weeks later he founded East Carolina Hemp Supply. After years of slow but steady growth, Dunn hopes to one day be able to build a hemp processing plant in North Carolina to boost the industry and local eco


Australian manufacturer to launch North American operations in Bladen County, investing more than $6M in Elizabethtown

Photo provided by Bladen County Economic DevelopmentVectorTex USA, LLC, a product developer and technology company, will create 44 new jobs in Bladen County. The company will establish its first North American manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown.