“We need to expand the pipeline of future workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and advanced manufacturing,” said Mary Locke, assistant dean in Greenville Tech’s business and technology division. “A lot of students and their parents are not familiar with how much technology is involved in manufacturing.”
Everybody’s talking about the event venue downtown Greenville needs, but they’re not all talking about the same thing. The terms “convention center” and “conference center” are often used interchangeably, but event planners say the difference has to do with the type of meetings held at the venue.
Wyche, who joined the law firm founded by his father in 1949, built a reputation as a brilliant lawyer and a civic-minded leader who worked strategically and diligently on a project until it came to fruition.
A partnership between Clemson University and the South Carolina Research Authority will virtually connect innovation centers across the state and help grow the state’s “knowledge economy,” officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Greenville County’s per capita personal income has fallen to 89.5 percent of the U.S. per capita personal income, a level not seen since the mid-1980s – before BMW located next door in Spartanburg County and brought a slew of automotive-related enterprises with it, and before companies such as Hubbell Lighting, TD Bank and Proterra called the Upstate home.
In 1939, “Gone with the Wind” was released in theaters, the newspaper comic strip “Superman” debuted, the first NFL Pro Bowl game was held at Wrigley Field (the one in Los Angeles), World War II began and Canal Insurance was formed.