Author: RM Barton

As an army veteran and health and wellness coach in the federal services, Elizabeth Freitas knows that providing healthcare for veterans is about more than offering life-saving services, it’s also about building community. Organizations that specialize in veterans’ healthcare do more than address veterans’ health needs, they also bring veterans together and help them make valuable connections with one another.

If you’re currently looking for a new job, you may have noticed that the job market is sketchy, or at least it seems to be. Despite a growing labor shortage, many professionals report that they’re having trouble finding high-quality jobs. According to Fast Company, this could be because the job market is shifting from a pandemic-era employee market to an employer’s market, meaning employers can afford to be pickier about who they hire.

According to The Atlantic, the United States is in the midst of a paradigm shift – our economy, which was once driven by manufacturing, is now dominated by the services sector. This sector, which encompasses a wide range of businesses and industries that provide services to consumers, now accounts for over 70% of the United States’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

In the high-stakes world of crisis communication, trust is key. Few people understand this as well as Matt Charles, the new online graduate program director in Purdue’s Brian Lamb School of Communication. His career as a crisis communicator has spanned decades – and in that time, he’s collected a lot of stories and learned a thing or two about building trust.

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and data mining have changed today’s technological landscape and the technological landscape of the future – but these technologies are also changing the ways we communicate. According to Forbes, the expansion of digital and information...

When it comes to investing in higher education, professionals are focused on maximizing their return-on-investment (ROI). The benefits of earning a graduate degree are well-documented: graduate programs can increase career mobility, increase earning potential, and provide valuable networking opportunities.

A series of artificial intelligence workshops for Purdue faculty is designed to help instructors seamlessly integrate new and relevant generative AI technologies into their curriculum, with a strong emphasis on enhancing teaching and learning and saving instructors’ time.

Water resource engineer, Mingxi Lin, loves that her job challenges her. Her work is complex, technical, and important – water resource engineers play a critical role in managing one of the world’s most crucial and delicate resources.

For aviation enthusiast Victor Migliore, succeeding in the aviation industry has been an exercise in continually rising to the challenge. His career started in a niche sector of aviation – unmanned aircraft (also known as drones).

Sacramento-based community outreach coordinator Jeanette Huddleston believes skillful communication can change the world. She sees the impact of communication every day in her job, where she helps communities around Sacramento protect local waterways and preserve California’s beautiful oceans, rivers and streams for future generations.