Skilling Latin America s Workforce and Boosting Employment Opportunities: A Call to Action
Experts from the public and private sector joined a roundtable to discuss the need to close the growing skills gap in Latin America in an increasingly digitalized world.
Speakers:
Reina Mejía, Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank
Susan Segal, President and CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas
Nicolás Kaplun, Chief Business Officer and General Manager for LATAM, Globant (moderator)
In an
invitation-only event as part of AS/COA s Tech Series, representatives from companies, governments, and multilateral organizations participated in a private roundtable focused on skilling the Latin American workforce to boost economic opportunity. As businesses become more digital and automated, the participants discussed how Latin America a region of 30 million unemployed people needs to focus on skilling its workforce and closing the growing skills gap, especially as
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Brockport (+6)
After opening with losses to Ithaca and Geneseo, Brockport has won seven straight including avenging one of those losses this week.
Heather Conklin tied a career high with seven goals to lead the Golden Eagles to a 15-7 win over Geneseo to get a busy week started. They added two more wins over the weekend to keep their streak going. Conklin also had an assist and six draw controls against Geneseo, while Morgan Elmer was stellar in goal with 17 saves to tie her career high. Courtney Cunningham added four goals.
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Geneseo (-2)
After beating Brockport in their opener, the Knights struggled in the rematch for their only big loss of the season. They trailed 9-5 at halftime and couldn’t recover, four days after a narrow, one-goal defeat in double overtime against St. John Fisher. Hannah Marafioti scored four goals in the 15-7 loss to Brockport.
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IMAGE: Heather Conklin, PhD, of St. Jude Psychology, contributed to research that studied risk factors of certain cancer treatments in children. view more
Credit: St. Jude Children s Research Hospital
Childhood cancer and its treatment can result in cognitive struggles. Scientists atSt. Jude Children s Research Hospital are studying the risk factors. They looked at social and economic issues in children with brain tumors treated with radiation.
These patients have the greatest risk of cognitive problems. Scientists followed a group of St. Jude patients for 10 years. The children all had conformal radiation therapy.
For each patient, researchers looked at certain factors. These included the parent s job, education level, and whether it was a single parent home. The children were from different backgrounds.