Kent McDill
BTN LiveBIG: Matthew Schuyler sees change, growth at Hilton
BTN LiveBIG: Matthew Schuyler sees change, growth at Hilton
Over the past 25 years, a relatively unheard of corporate department - Human Resources - has become a critical cog in the success or failure of a business or enterprise. At the same time, the Human Resources Department has become one of the most complicated, all-encompassing places to work in any firm. Matthew W. Schuyler, […]
BTN LiveBIG: Schuler Scholar Program making college a reality
BTN LiveBIG: Schuler Scholar Program making college a reality
A celebrated American tradition - being the first in your family to attend college - is the basis of a charitable effort of stunning scope in the Chicagoland area. Candace Browdy, an Indiana University alum, is Executive Director of the Schuler Scholar Program (SSP), which fully funds four years of high school programs and a […]
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota, HopeKids providing smiles
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota, HopeKids providing smiles
It is the nature of volunteerism that you find yourself working with people for whom life is unfairly difficult. Such is the case for the student-athletes from the University of Minnesota who have formed a bond with HopeKids to give moments of pleasure to families of children with terminal illnesses. On Sept. 7, HopeKids Minnesota […]
BTN LiveBIG: Maryland students win language awards
BTN LiveBIG: Maryland students win language awards
Based within a few miles of the nation?s capital, Washington D.C., it makes sense that the University of Maryland would have a pronounced program in international studies and a corresponding preponderance of students interested in foreign languages studies. It follows then that the University of Maryland would also be the nation?s leader in students being […]
BTN LiveBIG: Rutgers makes going green smarter
BTN LiveBIG: Rutgers makes going green smarter
Students at Rutgers University are studying the relationship between humans and the buildings in which they live. Through a collaborative effort of many different academic disciplines, the Rutgers Center for Green Building develops and implements innovative green building strategies. The RCGB, which operates within the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at […]
BTN LiveBIG: Maryland rewards civil rights studies
BTN LiveBIG: Maryland rewards civil rights studies
The study of the lengthy and, perhaps, never-ending struggle of the African American people in the United States led University of Maryland Professor Ira Berlin to receive the W. E. B. Dubois Medal for 2014 from Harvard University?s Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies. Berlin, a professor at the University of Maryland?s history […]
