(Clockwise from top left) Jogbra inventor Lisa Lindahl, OME Gear’s Jules Weldon and Stacey Pierce, and MitoChem Therapeutics co-founder Bärbel Rohrer As she sits outside Normandy Farms near her home in West Ashley, Lisa Lindahl glances at a young…

Healthcare organizations across the U.S. are under tremendous pressure as the growing need for nurses outpaces a shrinking workforce. There have been unprecedented challenges from the large, aging baby boomer population. Nurses are also getting…

An old landscape architecture adage is that you never build paths, you let people beat them. Troy Miller’s family has done its share of path-beating throughout Riverland Terrace on James Island. His grandfather, Aaron “Harry” Miller, caddied at the…

The University of Southern California has the top-ranked game design program in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. But until recently, most students had nowhere to play. The only exception was its esports team, which practiced in a…

Discover this scenic, funky slice of the coast through an island artist, pro surfer, and chef As temperatures climb, landlocked beach lovers flock to Folly, the “Edge of America” outpost that packs in more characters, adventures, and sights than its…

Since it began occupying its new arena in 2016, the Sacramento Kings basketball team has been moving many of its workloads — email systems, file servers, Microsoft 365 — to the cloud. One thing was missing, however: a seamless disaster recovery…

Simplicity has been Fordham University’s game plan for the past decade. Since shifting its enterprise resource planning system from its New York campus to Amazon Web Services in 2012, the school has moved about 85 percent of its infrastructure to…

In the year since the city of Tampa, Fla., moved its human resources and finance systems to a cloud-based Software as a Service platform, HR signed three new union contracts and had to get the new compensation and rules into the system. The project…

There’s a lot of waiting around in hospitals. Patients wait for rooms, doctors or test results. But medical teams spend a lot of time waiting too. “It’s frustrating as a clinician to not have a real-time view of where important things are inside the…

The cats, octopuses, and other critters in Nathan Durfee’s whimsical paintings find themselves atop mountains, under water, nestled in tree branches, or lounging at home. But in the past two years, the acclaimed artist has added some recurring…

When 12-year-old Herbert Henry Dow set out to invent a chicken egg incubator, it took 40 tries before he was successful. For much of the past 125 years since he founded his namesake chemicals company, scientists at Dow have followed in his footsteps,…

Graffiti breeds graffiti. It’s a reality that prompted city leaders in Tempe, Ariz., to set a goal of reducing it to one instance per four square miles. “If you don’t clean it up quickly, it attracts more and detracts from the overall appearance of…

On July 2, 2021, while preparing to kick off the holiday weekend, Stephen Jauregui got an alert about a malicious .crt file on six servers. His company, Baxter Credit Union, based in Vernon Hills, Ill., was one of thousands hit by the notorious…

Community Medical Centers had a growing demand for data analytics. So in 2017, when Javier Romo started as associate manager of business intelligence at the Stockton, Calif.-based nonprofit, he turned to legacy tools — mainly freeware — to meet the…

Kyle Barnette and Brian Porter aren’t afraid to shake things up. Since their meet-cute in 2003 during stints at Memphis’ famed Playhouse on the Square, they’ve routinely asked themselves, “What if?” As in, what if they brought boundary-pushing shows…

Months before mask mandates, variants and mRNA vaccines became part of the common lexicon, Farm Credit Administration Chairman and CEO Glen Smith spoke on Capitol Hill about the economic outlook, with one qualifier: His forecast was solid, barring an…

Shuai and Corrie Wang in front of their celebrated Spruill Avenue eatery, Jackrabbit Filly. Since moving from New York City to Charleston in 2014, Corrie and Shuai Wang had dreamed of opening a “neighborhood joint”—the kind of place where everyone…

The Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois (RTA), faced with sweeping shutdowns due to COVID-19, announced that its workforce would be fully remote after March 13, 2020, until further notice. Everyone, that is, except for its call…

When the 13,000 employees of long-term-care provider PruittHealth meet with patients, they can’t spend time troubleshooting technology issues. They need to count on quick IT support. For years, however, they could only submit service requests and…

As the world grappled with the ramifications of a mysterious new illness in early 2020, the Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories returned to their World War II–era roots. The labs, created to develop the atomic bomb, came together during…