The Stop Trafficking on Planes Act would require training for certain airline industry employees to recognize and report human trafficking; the legislation builds on voluntary efforts to encourage airline personnel to report trafficking to law enforcement WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced legislation to combat human trafficking…
In his will, Thomas Green Clemson left a large part of his personal estate to establish what would become Clemson University. Initially an all-male military school, Clemson Agricultural College opened in July 1893 with 446 students. Over years, this South Carolina school has transformed itself into a top-25 national university. Among the many research projects listed…
March is Minnesota Food Share Month. That means that special activities are held to raise food and funds for food shelves around the state. Here in Owatonna there is a night of musical entertainment where the admission price is a donation to the food shelf. The local churches are encouraged to hold “pack the pew”…
Here’s a look at some of the research that is happening at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, everything from robots to chameleons to zebrafish to virtual reality. Brown is also heavily involved in research on the planet Mars since there are several articles on their research news web page about it. One of the articles…
South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD is a land-grant university that dates back to the days when South Dakota first became a state in 1889. Here are some of the highlights from their most recent Research Report. Educators from SDSU have been trying to find the best ways to educate Native American elders at…
It just amazes me that so much research goes on at the major universities in our country. Just a tiny fraction of the discoveries that are made ever make the news headlines yet every discovery contributes to our knowledge of the world God created and its inhabitants. With Benjamin Franklin as its founder and first…
Source: How Memorization Revolutionized My Spiritual Life
This week we are re-tooling The Research Project. Instead of giving a synopsis of one research project from a university in the scheduled state, our new approach is to list several research headlines at one of the major universities of the scheduled state along with a link to more info about each project. The University…
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Local clergy, representatives from crisis centers and many others gathered to hear Dan Kasper’s powerful message on domestic violence. IN A NEARLY TWO-HOUR presentation Sunday afternoon to a crowd of around 50 gathered at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Owatonna, Dan Kasper of Northfield spoke from the heart—of losing a…
Every year for the January 22nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in this country in 1973 I write a pro-life letter to the editor for our local newspaper. Some years the newspaper prints it, some years they don’t. This was a year that, for no apparent reason, they did not print…
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