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Connecting local education with job opportunities
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Creating new job opportunities in a changing economy
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The long-term demand for coal has fallen, with energy industry sources blaming governmental regulation, international climate agreements, alternative energy production, and supply-and-demand pressure as the culprits. The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimates that U.S. coal production in the Western region will decline by 20% in 2016.
Farmington, NM has recently been named as the “Fastest Shrinking City in the US,” and general economic trends in the Four...
UNM-Gallup departments collaborate
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Kristi Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor and Instructor of Small Metals Construction, received an internal mini-grant to fund the design and construction of new jewelers benches for her students.
Chris Chavez, Instructor and Coordinator of Construction Technology, was happy to have his students construct the new ergonomically correct island workstations which gave them...
Luján pushes for $1 billion to combat opioid epidemic
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Led by Representatives Ben Ray Luján (NM-3), Elijah E. Cummings (MD-7), Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Joe Kennedy III (MA-4), Derek Kilmer (WA-6), and Anne McLane Kuster (NH-2), the Opioid and Heroin Abuse Crisis Investment Act has the support of 90 House Democrats and reflects President Obama’s budget request for much-needed resources to increase treatment programs that will help address the drug crisis.
In 2014, 47,055 people died from drug overdose, with opioid...
Udall, Heinrich Announce $884,000 for green construction certificate program
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The program will prepare students to work on clean energy projects, sustainable buildings, or water efficient technologies, and it will support a pathway for high school and college students to participate in an internship program and dual credit courses.
The funding will also support outreach and mentoring efforts to encourage underrepresented students to...
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