SHERYLL POE

With concerns growing over climate change and the environment, clients are asking landscape architects to incorporate sustainable landscape design into their residential and commercial landscaping projects.
The planning and design of rain gardens is a particularly popular project for firms involved in landscape architecture and environmental planning.
What is a rain garden?
A rain garden is a water capture feature designed to take advantage of rainwater runoff that flows from roofs, driveways...

April showers bring May flowers, which means lots of work for landscaping and lawn care businesses. But every business faces a lull at some point in the year. The slow, or off-season, is the perfect time to strategize on how to grow a landscaping business, while preparing for the busier times of the year.
6 steps to build your landscaping business off-season
Any path to growth requires a plan of action. Here are six steps you can take to advance your landscaping business off-season.
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Making the change to eco-friendly living can be overwhelming when you’re first starting out. Particularly when you live in an apartment where space is limited, and you can’t do major renovations.
While solar panels, a wind turbine, and a large organic gardening operation may not be in the cards, eco-friendly apartment living is still doable. Want to know how to live green in an apartment? Read on for our quick and easy eco-friendly apartment ideas.
20 Ways to Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly
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Paying off a car loan can take a while. Currently, the most common car loans are spread out over 72 to 84 months. The longer the loan terms, the more interest you end up paying. That's where a car loan amortization schedule can come in handy.
Whether you are planning to purchase a car or finance an existing loan, a car loan amortization schedule or calculator can help you estimate your monthly payment and predict how soon the car loan will be paid off.
What Is Car Loan Amortizati...

Sometimes, teaching any type of scientific discipline at the advanced level can feel like trying to tame wild animals. Luckily, Professor Kevin Patton has experience in that area.
Patton, a founding faculty member of Human Anatomy and Physiology Instruction (HAPI) at the Northeast College of Health Sciences, “started out wanting to work with wild animals, which took me down the road of biology.”
After getting his undergraduate degree in biology and completing his research on animal stress at ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the current inflation rate that's rising among many industries is now hitting transportation, too, disrupting manufacturers everywhere.

William Taylor, CEO of Taylor Group, a heavy equipment manufacturer, told lawmakers in Congress, "The supply chain is a disaster." He went on to explain how delays in inbound deliveries from freight carriers and rapidly increasing transportation rates forced the company to boost its prices.

And that's just one of many way...

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Dr. Nalini Pather has been chosen as the new Associate Editor for Anatomical Sciences Education journal. She has served on the ASE editorial board since 2014. Pather is currently Chair of Anatomy at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medicine and Health in Sydney, Australia.
As Associate Editor, Pather will draw on her more than 25 years’ experience in design and implementation of educational innovation in medicine and health science programs in a number of countries, including Sou...

New Member Da’Quan Craven on Diversity, Confidence, and the Anatomy Class that Changed His Career
This article was originally published in the February, 2021 edition of the Anatomy Now newsletter.
Talking to him today, it’s hard to believe that Da’Quan Craven has ever had an issue with confidence. He’s a funny, chatty, charismatic, proudly gay Black man who admits his favorite form of self-care is hitting the dance floor in the latest fashions. (He almost went to design school).
On top of tha...

If you’ve attended an AAA Annual Meeting at the Experimental Biology Conference in the last 10 years, chances are you’ve seen Matthew J. Zdilla. Or, you’ve definitely met and heard from one of the many students that he has brought to the meeting.
That’s because Zdilla has brought approximately 100 students to the AAA Annual Meeting over the last decade, with over 250 presentations featuring student authors. In 2019, his team of 11 students from West Liberty University had 25 presentations alo...

What’s more fun than summer camp? Learning about anatomy and science, of course.
Building African American Minds (BAAM), a Maryland organization founded in 2003 to address the low number of African American males graduating from Easton High School and moving on to higher education, recently expanded its mission to include girls.
The eight first-grade girls who attended the inaugural BAAM Girls Program this summer are getting a hands-on view of how fun and interesting science can be by interac...

The UN Climate Reports painted a bleak picture of the future if more drastic action isn't taken soon. It forced many companies to reconsider their sustainability initiatives and ask themselves: How can companies go green and make a more significant impact on preventing the worst outcomes of climate change?
This means stepping up their game from already common efforts, such as energy-efficient light bulbs, smart thermostats and paperless billing. All efforts help, but so far, it's not been eno...

Cyberattacks on businesses—and the criminals who deploy them—get more advanced and sophisticated every day, with several high-profile breaches so far this year, from Facebook to Microsoft to the Colonial Pipeline, just to name a few. Although the business A-listers get more of the scary headlines, small businesses are often particularly vulnerable to potential cyberattacks, including the latest spyware threats.
But what is spyware, and how can hackers and scammers compromise a business by dep...

Here’s what to buyers need know about EV incentives at the state and federal level.
From the White House to the Munich Auto Show to the U.S. Open, and even outer space, electric vehicles are everywhere. But if you’re a consumer thinking about putting an EV in your own home garage, there are a few things to know, particularly when it comes to collecting EV tax credits.
Eight Things to Know About EV Incentives
EV tax credits are currently up to $7500 – but depend on several factors. – Consumers...