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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberglinea.com.br | Marcos Bonfim |Michelle Gustafson
Bloomberg Línea — Os setores de educação, financeiro e de comércio digital estiveram no centro dos anúncios de investimentos em startups na semana que passou, marcada também por rodadas de extensão. Os maiores aportes ficaram com a edtech Principia, com uma rodada de R$ 190 milhões para escalar sua plataforma de gestão acadêmica, e com a colombiana Simetrik, que recebeu US$ 30 milhões para avançar internacionalmente, o que inclui a sua atuação no Brasil.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com.br | Nick Wadhams |Michelle Gustafson
Bloomberg — Os Estados Unidos planejam começar a revogar os vistos de estudantes chineses, disse o Secretário de Estado Marco Rubio, aumentando a pressão do governo Trump por um maior escrutínio dos estrangeiros que frequentam as universidades americanas. Rubio disse em um comunicado que os estudantes afetados incluiriam “aqueles com conexões com o Partido Comunista Chinês ou que estudam em áreas críticas”.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Nick Wadhams |Michelle Gustafson
Bloomberg — Estados Unidos revocará los visados a los estudiantes chinos, dijo el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio, intensificando la presión de la administración Trump para un mayor escrutinio de los extranjeros que asisten a las universidades estadounidenses. Rubio dijo en un post en X que entre los estudiantes afectados estarían “aquellos con conexiones con el Partido Comunista Chino o que estudian en campos críticos”. No ofreció más información.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Nick Wadhams |Hadriana Lowenkron |Michelle Gustafson
Bloomberg — El secretario de Estado,Marco Rubio, ordenó a las embajadas estadounidenses en todo el mundo que dejen de programar nuevas entrevistas para solicitantes de visa de estudiante, mientras la administración Trump estudia la posibilidad de aplicar un control más estricto de los perfiles en las redes sociales.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Ryan Dezember |Michelle Gustafson
By Ryan Dezember | Photographs and video by Michelle Gustafson for WSJ ATGLEN, Pa.—When a recruiter approached Andy Silvernail about joining International Paper IP 1.15%increase; green up pointing triangle to turn around the 127-year-old company, he initially said no. Silvernail grew up in the shadows of a paper mill in Bucksport, Maine, that produced the paper on which Time magazine was printed. The mill closed in 2014, devastating his hometown.
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2 months ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Romy Varghese |Michelle Gustafson
Bloomberg — El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, está intensificando la presión sobre las universidades de élite de su país que, según él y sus aliados, están promoviendo ideales progresistas en detrimento de los valores conservadores. Su administración ha dirigido sus ataques a universidades como Columbia y Harvard, argumentando que deben hacer más para acabar con las protestas propalestinas y abordar las acusaciones de antisemitismo para poder continuar recibiendo fondos federales.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Michelle Gustafson
By | Photographs and video by Michelle Gustafson for WSJ Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:00This article is in your queue. ROCKY HILL, N.J.—Jeff Bernardis had to keep the trains running on time. Perched at a bank of computer monitors, he relayed orders to the engineers of nearly a dozen trains ferrying oil, beer and circus animals on a dizzying network of routes.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Emmett Lindner |Michelle Gustafson
In 1958, the sci-fi horror film "The Blob," about a murderous, insatiable and ever-ballooning hunk of alien matter, opened in theaters across the United States. At the time, critics' appetites for the movie were not as piqued as the onscreen monster's. In a review for The New York Times, Howard Thompson wrote that "The Blob" was "woodenly presented," and the "dialogue flattens as fast as the blob rounds."Not even Steve McQueen in his first leading role could save the plot in Thompson's eyes.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Greg Jaffe |Michelle Gustafson
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Shannon Salter checked the results of an online poll that she gave each year to her high school civics students. One of the questions asked whether they would support lowering the voting age to 16. “Everyone said no,” Salter told her students in late April. “That has never happened before. So, I am dying to dig into why.”Salter, a 53-year-old White woman, stood at the front of the classroom.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
buffalonews.com | Michelle Gustafson
Former President Donald Trump during a rally at a fairgrounds in Schnecksville, Pa. on Saturday, April 13, 2024. The House vote on Saturday to provide $61 billion in American aid to Ukraine was the clearest sign yet that at least on foreign policy, the Republican Party is not fully aligned with Trump and his “America First” movement. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
