The NXT GEN MED program will launch on the Rochester campus in Summer 2022. The University of Minnesota recently announced that a new health sciences degree program, designed to address the national shortage of healthcare workers, will be launching on the Rochester campus in summer 2022. In a collaborative project, the NXT GEN MED program will use new technology from Google to teach students in a hybrid format and connect them with working healthcare professionals from the Mayo Clinic, a… Source link

It was January 2021 in McKinley County, New Mexico, and George Munoz was despondent. Ten months into the coronavirus pandemic, the devastating impact on his community weighed him down. “We live in a small town, so everybody kind of knows everybody right?” Munoz, a representative elected to the state’s legislature, told Yahoo Finance. “For seven days straight, I knew somebody who had died.” McKinley County has one of the highest COVID-related mortality rates in the U.S., according to a new… Source link

The Golden Globes will air this Sunday on NBC, but the award show’s glamor is being overshadowed by a recent scandal and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that’s forced the production to go virtual. Despite its not so subtle problems, the Globes still offers a window of opportunity for shows and movies that want to capture more viewers. It is also often perceived as a precursor to the annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will take place on April 25 this year. Netflix’s “The Trial of the Chicago… Source link

TipRanks 2 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 7% Dividend Yield You can get whiplash, trying to follow the market fluctuations these days. Volatility rules for now, as investors are pulling out of Big Tech – a move that is pushing the general markets down. The bearish sentiment comes as new COVID case numbers are falling, along with the weekly unemployment claims. Both are positive news bites for the economy, and will help to justify increased economic opening. At the same time, a Congressional… Source link

August 30th 2020 – Warren Buffett celebrates his 90th birthday. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska on August 30th 1930. – File Photo by: zz/NPX/STAR MAX/IPx 2008 10/22/08 Warren Buffett at “The Women’s Conference” held on October 22, 2008 in Long Beach, CA. Warren Buffett is still at it. Having received his COVID-19 vaccine recently, (two Pfizer shots according to Bloomberg), Buffett, 90, isn’t slowing down much (at least mentally) and seems poised to lead his company into the post-pandemic… Source link

Billionaire investing icon Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B, BRK-A), reiterated his “never bet against America” maxim on Saturday in his annual letter to shareholders. “Today, with much of finance, media, government and tech located in coastal areas, it’s easy to overlook the many miracles occurring in middle America,” Buffett wrote in the widely-read letter. The 90-year-old Omaha, Nebraska native, who has an estimated net worth of $92.7 billion, is widely… Source link

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Famed investor Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B), the sprawling investment conglomerate, differs from the typical conglomerates that have earned terrible reputations. “Berkshire is often labeled a conglomerate, a negative term applied to holding companies that own a hodge-podge of unrelated businesses. And, yes, that describes Berkshire – but only in part,” Buffett wrote in his widely-read annual letter. The 90-year-old investor pointed out that historically… Source link

Bloomberg Dangers of Big Oil Spending Cuts Are Visible in Angola’s Slump (Bloomberg) — The decline of Angola, from being Africa’s top crude producer five years ago to barely pumping more than war-torn Libya today, shows the heavy toll of a slump in oil-industry investment.The nation’s production has fallen by more than a third since 2015, when international oil companies started slashing investment in response to a plunge in crude prices. Despite government efforts to stimulate… Source link

The Telegraph On which mode of transport are you most likely to catch Covid? If you’re hoping to travel (either abroad or domestically) this summer, you may be pondering the best way to actually get to your holiday destination of choice. Transport safety has always been a big question, but since the pandemic, a new element has been added to this – what risk of infection do you expose yourself to aboard each one? While there hasn’t been a definitive answer to the question, it is possible… Source link