FHU was also recognized as a Top Performer in Social Mobility, a designation given to schools which are more successful than others at enrolling and graduating large proportions of disadvantaged students who have been awarded Pell Grants. The majority of Pell Grants go to students whose adjusted family incomes are less than $50,000 annually.
“I, too, received Pell Grants when I attended Freed-Hardeman,” FHU President David R. Shannon said in connection to the Top Performer in Social Mobility recognition. “It is in the DNA of this Christian university to meet students — all students — where they are and lift them toward their goals and dreams. This was the driving factor to develop FHU Promise. This scholarship makes FHU possible for economically disadvantaged students by paying the remainder of their tuition not covered by grants and loans. This makes the impossible possible for many Pell Grant recipients enrolled at FHU. Seeing students embrace this opportunity and graduate with a degree and a stronger walk with God is a success. Success isn’t measured or limited by household income.”
Buoyed by exceptional retention rates, FHU has logged for the sixth consecutive year a record-breaking total enrollment of 2,325. Fall 2022 to Fall 2023 retention was 88%, while Spring ’23 to Fall ’23 was even better, topping out at 91%. These numbers are approximately 10% better than national retention numbers. Provost and Vice President for Academics C.J. Vires credits the strong showing to a campus culture that makes students feel as if they belong and nurtures their growth.
FHU is currently engaged in a highly successful fundraising campaign dubbed FHU NEXT to improve facilities and programs at the university. It already has funded a renovation of Paul Gray Hall, a men’s residence hall, and Laurel Cottage, an on-campus hospitality house. Also, vast improvements have been made on intercollegiate athletic fields and facilities. The new dining hall, which will include a Chick-fil-A®, is expected to open Spring 2024. Renovation of a women’s dormitory, Hall-Roland Hall, is currently underway. Renewal of Loyd Auditorium is scheduled to begin next summer, as will the conversion of Gano Dining Hall into the Saunders Center to accommodate new academic programs.
U.S. News will also publish most of the rankings with robust datasets in the “Best Colleges 2023 Guidebook,” which will start shipping in late October.
The mission of Freed-Hardeman University is to help students develop their God-given talents for His glory by empowering them with an education that integrates Christian faith, scholarship and service. With locations in Henderson and Memphis, FHU offers associates, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees. More information is available at fhu.edu.
Media Contact Dawn Bramblett, Freed-Hardeman University, 731-608-7650, [email protected], fhu.edu
Elizabeth Gamez is Manager, Logistics for PECO’s North American distribution network. In this role, she leads a team tasked with the recovery of PECO’s signature red, 9-block pallets upon completion of rental contracts. She demonstrates servant leadership and promoting employee learning and development through programs like “walk a mile in my shoes” and driver ride-alongs. In one case, she worked with a PECO driver to help a difficult customer overcome resistance to timely return of pallets, mentoring the driver on conflict management, and ultimately securing the recovery of over 3,000 pallets. Gamez believes that leaders can fall into a trap by relying only on data to drive decisions, on-the-ground team input is critical as well. Particularly in the pallet business, you have to ‘go look, go see’ to get the full picture and lead the team in the correct direction, she adds.
Jennifer Oxley is Director, Regional Transportation. She is responsible for securing and directing transportation resources to deliver and pick up PECO pallets with customers. She recently added Canada to her responsibilities, expanding the role to include intra as well as cross-border Canada operations, driving efficiencies and helping the team handle 10% more transactions without adding staff. Other cost-saving initiatives she developed helped her region drive down trucking costs by 10 percent annually. She also led a Lean Silver project that improved the customer-facing web page and provided more accurate cost data that led to recovery of 45% more revenue from accessorial charges. Over a 12-year career she worked herself up from coordinator to her current management leadership role. She also serves as a mentor and facilitator to help women at PECO improve their skills and prepare for advancement.
Elizabeth Strub is Automation Engineer for PECO. Over the past three years her accomplishments have included deploying and commissioning capital automation projects at three facilities that have significantly improved operations efficiency and competitiveness. Her engineering expertise as well as her communications skills have led to successful engineering projects across multiple production systems. One project reduced maintenance complexity and errors in the paint system, reducing downtime and ensuring higher quality output. She has demonstrated a keen ability to learn operations and work collaboratively with colleagues to solve complex problems. That approach combined with her technical engineering expertise and focus on continuous improvement has won her the trust and respect of plant managers and operators as team player who finds solutions.
“These three professionals are exemplary examples of strong, respected women whose mentoring and servant leadership skills are improving our company and helping develop the next generation of PECO leaders,” said Joe Dagnese, PECO’s Chief Executive Officer. “They truly embrace our emphasis on encouraging fellow employees to continually improve and excel. This employee-led culture of inclusion and support is what sets apart PECO’s service value in the market.”
The Women in Supply Chain award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. This year’s list includes individuals from software and service providers, consultancies and academia, trucking and transportation firms, professional development agencies, sourcing and procurement divisions and more, all who have helped elevate and help prepare the supply chain community meet many of today’s—and tomorrow’s—challenges, explained Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics.
“This year, we received over 400 submissions, the highest number of applications not only for this award, but also for all of our awards. What’s more, 118 of those applications were submitted by male counterparts, nominating their boss, co-worker or associate. This shows progress,” she noted, adding “the hope is that one day, we won’t need an award like this because men and women in the supply chain will be equal.”
“While there’s still more work to be done, what we’re doing is working. From truck drivers to CEOs, what these winners are doing matters to the future of all supply chains,” Mayer concluded.
Go to https://foodl.me/fdx1zi to view the full list of winners. Recipients will be honored at this year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum, set to take place Nov. 14-15, 2023 in Atlanta. Go to http://www.WomenInSupplyChainForum.com to register and learn more.
About Supply & Demand Chain Executive – Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more. Supply & Demand Chain Executive and sister publication Food Logistics are also home to L.I.N.K. podcast channel, SCNSummit.com, SupplyChainLearningCenter.com, the Women in Supply Chain Forum and more. Go to http://www.SDCExec.com to learn more.
About PECO Pallet, Inc. – Itasca, IL-based PECO Pallet is one of North America’s leaders in pallet rental services and provides tens of millions of its red block pallets to major grocery and consumer goods manufacturers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. PECO Pallet’s tremendous growth over the last 25+ years reflects the company’s commitment to quality and service. Customers using PECO’s superior pallets experience less product damage, greater efficiency, improved safety, and significant cost savings. For more information about PECO Pallet, please visit http://www.pecopallet.com.
Our products will maintain their high quality and functionality
This transition has no impact on the technical functionalities of our portfolio. “We guarantee their compatibility with other products,” Grundmann said. “For example, our camera software can seamlessly support both Matrix Vision cameras and the new versions under the Balluff brand.”
The existing location of Matrix Vision in Oppenweiler, Baden-Württemberg, will continue to serve as the competence center for image processing. There will be no changes for the approximately 120 employees who are now working for Balluff MV GmbH. “There will be no layoffs,” emphasized Grundmann.
Now in black and white
With regard to product design, “All our vision components will now feature a black housing with the white Balluff logo,” explained Dietmar Un-ser, marketing manager at Matrix Vision. Because Balluff, as the future manufacturer, is integrating the existing products into its global distribution network and online shop, the product names will also be adjusted according to the Balluff nomenclature. For information about the vision portfolio, visit the Balluff website starting mid-October.
About Balluff Founded in 1921 in Neuhausen a. d. F., Balluff has established itself as a global leader in innovative technology, quality, and cross-industry expertise in industrial automation. With 3,900 employees worldwide, this fourth-generation family-owned company offers a comprehensive portfolio of high-quality sensor, identification, and image processing solutions, including networking technology and software. In 2022, the Balluff Group achieved a revenue of approximately 567 million euros. In addition to its central headquarters in Neuhausen a. d. F., Balluff has sales, production, and development locations around the globe, operating 38 subsidiaries and having additional representations in 61 countries. This ensures customers rapid worldwide availability of products and high-quality consulting and service directly on-site.
Complementing this horizon-opening integration is the introduction of Container Device Interface (CDI) Support, solidifying Singularity 4.0’s commitment to staying at the forefront of container technology. Collaborating with NVIDIA, CDI Support optimizes GPU integration, a vital aspect of performance-intensive environments such as AI and data analytics. This enhancement further solidifies Singularity as the ultimate solution for enterprises and organizations seeking unmatched performance and flexibility in their container workflows.
Singularity, renowned for its design and features tailored to HPC and scientific workloads, offers a multitude of benefits over traditional OCI container platforms, especially in performance-intensive environments where security and mobility of compute are paramount. Its emphasis on security, resource efficiency, and native performance has made Singularity the top choice for industries such as scientific research, high-performance computing, and AI. This focus on holistic solutions stands in stark contrast to the trend of fragmentary, point-based approaches that merely address isolated needs, ensuring Singularity’s versatility across complex computing ecosystems.
By allowing non-privileged execution, employing a specialized security model, and granting direct access to hardware resources, Singularity elevates the integrity and performance of applications in performance-intensive environments. Its compatibility with parallel file systems, simplified software dependencies, and verified reproducibility further streamline workflows. The transportability of Singularity’s single-file format, SIF, coupled with encryption and decryption features, ensures secure deployment across diverse environments, including edge computing scenarios. This single file container format not only encapsulates the entire application environment but also preserves its security attributes, eliminating the need for complex, layered architectures and facilitating seamless movement across distributed systems. This architectural simplicity significantly reduces potential vulnerabilities and points of entry, making Singularity an ideal solution for ensuring secure, streamlined, and efficient deployment across diverse computing landscapes.
Organizations that have commenced projects with OCI-compatible containers can find compelling reasons to integrate Singularity. While traditional OCI containers excel in general-purpose settings, Singularity’s tailored features align seamlessly with the unique demands of performance-intensive domains, including serverless computing, containers, AI, ML, and batch pipelines. Features like non-privileged execution, native performance optimization, and compatibility with complex dependencies provide a substantial advantage. The capability to seamlessly leverage OCI resources via Singularity containers through the OCI-to-SIF conversion process facilitates a fluid integration, allowing customers to consistently integrate these technologies and preserve their investments. This approach minimizes complexities in tooling while harnessing Singularity’s robust security, verified reproducibility, and widespread HPC adoption reinforcing its position as the preferred container solution.
“Singularity 4.0 takes a giant leap by seamlessly integrating SIF Encapsulated OCI Image support, ensuring HPC users benefit from a seamless transition between Singularity’s native runtime and the OCI runtime,” said Adam Hughes, CTO of Sylabs. “Singularity users will immediately notice the smoother experience with OCI images, without sacrificing any of the familiar functionality or performance they are used to. Singularity 4.0 has been meticulously engineered to provide more seamless integration with OCI, ensuring that compatibility doesn’t compromise on the unique features that our users have come to value. This improvement underscores our commitment to user-centric development, always aiming to offer the best experience possible without disrupting existing workflows.”
“Singularity 4.0 embodies our community’s commitment to innovation, catering to the dynamic needs of the HPC and enterprise sectors,” said David Trudgian, Software Engineer at Sylabs and the lead developer within the Singularity ecosystem. “This release shows how we can balance maintaining what users love about Singularity with new features that satisfy the evolving requirements of today’s scientific and machine learning workflows.”
Beyond technical enhancements, Singularity 4.0 also contributes to the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) computational practices, aligning with the principles that facilitate knowledge sharing and discovery. Given Singularity’s origins in scientific computing and performance reproducibility, this alignment promotes innovation in research and enterprise computing landscapes where reproducibility is paramount.
Incorporating community to drive refinements, Singularity 4.0 offers amplified compatibility, adaptive infrastructure, and future-proofing. As a result, Sylabs ensures a robust and refined user experience, reflecting their commitment to continuous improvement. For an in-depth look into Singularity 4.0 and its innovative features, visit https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases.
About Sylabs
Sylabs is the global leader in providing professional tools and services for high performance container runtime technology. Sylabs makes high performance computing more accessible to researchers, scientists, and engineers using Singularity, the most advanced open source container runtime technology for performance-intensive applications and environments. As the most active contributor to the Singularity ecosystem, through both the community edition and Sylabs’ enterprise-supported and professional implementations, Sylabs is dedicated to enabling cutting-edge research and facilitating rapid scientific discovery to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges. For more information about Singularity runtime technology, including SingularityCE (Community Edition), Singularity Container Services, SingularityPRO, and Singularity Enterprise, visithttps://www.sylabs.io.
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It also integrates OSV’s myFlexSpend to further enhance the new app’s capabilities and create a truly unified experience for employees by allowing them to view and manage their consumer-directed health accounts side by side with these other solutions. More features are planned for the app as well.
“Digital, on-demand finance services are reshaping employee expectations around wage access and financial well-being benefits,” said Michael Roseman, OSV’s chief operating officer. “myFlexWallet will help businesses meet those evolving needs and expectations. Employees get more flexibility and control over their finances while employers gain a valuable tool for recruitment and retention.”
“myFlexWallet is more than another digital wallet,” added Valerie Van Gorp, vice president of Customer Operations for OSV. “For many employees, it will give them more freedom and control over how and when they access their wages than they’ve ever had before. It can also help them reduce or eliminate late payment fees for bills, while unbanked or underbanked employees can gain access to banking features they may not have had access to before.”
Research from BrightPlan shows that financial stress can negatively impact productivity and engagement, costing companies an estimated $200 billion each year. myFlexWallet aims to reduce that stress to produce benefits for employers as well as employees.
Already, companies are making gains in those areas with myFlexPay, another OSV payroll solution. Companies offering myFlexPay have seen an 11% increase in hours worked by employees and a 16% reduction in turnover. And of those employees who have used myFlexPay, 90% say their financial situation has improved. Since 2021, OSV has distributed nearly $100 million in earned wages for Workday customers through myFlexPay.
“[Earned wage access] is a great benefit to an employee,” said Jill Palmer, payroll specialist for Purple, about OSV’s myFlexPay solution. “They’re in control of their own money and they can access it right away if they need it. We’ve seen a lot of our people use it for different reasons. And as the employer, we don’t have to think anything about it.”
myFlexWallet builds on the promise of these capabilities by giving users a single hub for accessing all of OSV’s employee-focused payroll and benefits solutions. With the complete solution, myFlexWallet will be a powerful addition to any company’s financial well-being offerings for its ability to empower employees at all levels of an organization.
“myFlexWallet has the potential to make a huge difference for employees, regardless of their role or their access to traditional banking solutions,” added Michael Roseman. “And with the adoption of digital wallets expected to spike in the next few years, we’re excited to be at the forefront of delivering such an empowering tool.”
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OneSource Virtual exists to help customers thrive by boosting their capacity for growth through co-sourced HR and Finance and Accounting. Working across industries in North America and EMEA, OneSource Virtual’s teams offer their expertise and deep knowledge to deliver comprehensive solutions and services to over 850 BPaaS customers.
LPA also has made LEED a core part of its own workplace design: All of LPA’s six studios in California and Texas are either LEED Platinum or LEED Gold.
“We’ve always believed that sustainable design is simply good design,” said LPA President and Chief Design Officer Keith Hempel. “We’ve had the good fortune of working with clients who share that mission and understand the value of meeting the LEED standards.”
Launched in 2000 by the USGBC, LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is the world’s most widely adopted sustainable design rating system, providing a framework for healthy, efficient, carbon-reducing green buildings. To achieve certification, a project earns points by adhering to prerequisites and credits that address location and transportation, sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality.
LPA designed several LEED landmark buildings, including the first LEED-NC building in the country, the Premier Automotive Group headquarters in 1998. An expansion of Toyota’s corporate headquarters in 2003 was the largest LEED-Gold office campus in the country at the time. The first LEED Platinum project in Orange County was the LPA-designed, net-zero-energy Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach. Among a wide range of projects, LPA also designed NASA’s first LEED-Gold facility, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Flight Projects Center.
“LEED made us integrate faster,” said LPA Principal Dan Heinfeld. “It helped us understand that we needed to bring in mechanical, civil and structural engineers if we were going to create these highly sustainable, high-performance buildings. We couldn’t continue to practice the way we had for 25 years.”
LPA’s 200th LEED project, the 90,000-square-foot Sheffield Elementary, is the first LEED-certified school built by Carrolton-Farmer’s Branch Independent School District. The design prioritizes human health and energy efficiency. Careful siting and high-efficiency mechanical and lighting systems helped slash energy consumption by 78%. Low-VOC (volatile organic compound) materials foster superior air quality; spaces are filled with natural light and learning courtyards are easily accessible from classrooms.
“Sheffield is an excellent example of using LEED as a guideline to create a healthier, more resilient campus,” said LPA Director of Sustainability and Applied Research Ellen Mitchell. “We’re seeing more and more of our Texas clients recognizing the value of sustainable design as good business.”
About LPA Design Studios
LPA is a multi-discipline firm focused on collaboration, inclusion and an integrated design process that connects building performance and design excellence. Founded in 1965, the firm’s mission is to deliver timeless, sustainable designs that benefit the environment, generate lasting value, enrich the human experience, and ensure a better future. With six studios in California and Texas, LPA’s team includes more than 400 in-house architects, master planners, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects and research analysts, working across a wide array of sectors. In 2021, LPA was honored as AIA California’s Firm of the Year, the organization’s highest annual honor for an architectural firm. For more information, visit lpadesignstudios.com.
“Jake’s deep industry expertise makes him a great fit,” said Brian Dolan, CEO of WorkReduce. “Clients and prospects want to talk to people who have built and led high-performing teams. Combine that with a deep understanding of the programmatic space, ad tech, and retail media and you have someone uniquely suited to help us break into new markets as we move into our next phase of growth.”
Over the past several years, the advertising industry has undergone a talent crisis driven by a variety of factors, from the Great Resignation to economic uncertainty to RTO pressures and an ongoing digital skills gap. WorkReduce helps platforms, brands and agencies augment leaner media teams with digitally skilled talent to better utilize resources and grow their businesses.
“I’m excited to join the innovative team at WorkReduce,” said Glaser. “Coming off the heels of the Great Resignation, our industry finds itself in a reset or a ‘Great Regrowth’. WorkReduce has always been ahead of market trends and represents a new way of working that solves the many challenges our industry faces. I am looking forward to joining the team in the mission to making work better.”
About WorkReduce Inc:
WorkReduce Inc is a data-driven platform dedicated to providing top-notch media buying talent. With a focus on innovation and excellence, the company continues to set industry standards and pave the way for the future of media buying.
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“We are excited to be named as a Product Challenger again in the competitive global contact center industry,” said Terrel Bird, CEO & co-founder of TCN. “Customer service and innovation are two of the things we pride ourselves on most at TCN. We value and take to heart the feedback from our customers and organizations like ISG. This gives us insight into what is important to our customers and what we need to focus on as a company and how we can provide contact centers with all the technology they need to better service their customers.”
ISG’s report shines a spotlight on TCN’s remarkable strengths that set it apart in the call center software industry. At the core of TCN lies its unified TCN Operator platform, a cloud-native and cloud-first solution designed to revolutionize contact centers. Highlighting TCN’s commitment to innovation while allowing contact centers to advance within a single, scalable environment. Furthermore, TCN’s strategic partnership with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ensures reliability for their customers. TCN Operator is not just hosted on GCP but is fully containerized and encrypted, leveraging the power of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This collaboration ensures that TCN’s clients benefit from the high standard of security and scalability. Both featured strengths support rapid scaling and instant flexibility to changing business needs, helping position TCN as a Product Challenger in this year’s report.
“Operator by TCN empowers contact centers via seamless integration and delivery of all critical call center functions including authentication and administration, on a single powerful scalable platform,” said Kenn Walters, global lead analyst at ISG.
ISG’s 2023 report evaluates 22 relevant software vendors and service providers in the global market based on the following evaluation criteria: strategy & vision, tech innovation, brand awareness and presence in the market, sales and partner landscape, breadth and depth of portfolio of services offered and CX and recommendation.
TCN’s flagship cloud-based contact center platform, TCN Operator, features a holistic set of easy-to-use, automated agent tools and advanced apps for omnichannel communications, workforce engagement, compliance & data management, integration & automation, intelligence, reporting & analytics and collaboration & accessibility.
About TCN TCN is a global provider of a comprehensive, cloud-based call center platform for enterprises, contact centers, business process outsourcing firms (BPOs) and collection agencies. Founded in 1999, TCN combines a deep understanding of the needs of call centers with a unique approach to pricing – no contracts, monthly minimums or maintenance fees – that supports rapid scaling and instant flexibility to changing business needs. TCN’s flagship platform for contact centers, TCN Operator, features a holistic set of easy-to-use, automated agent tools and advanced apps for omnichannel communications, workforce engagement, compliance & data management, integration & automation, intelligence, reporting & analytics and collaboration & accessibility. Its suite of compliance tools helps businesses meet the requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and other state and federal regulations, including new and updated debt collection rules issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. TCN Operator integrates seamlessly with leading APIs and is accessible to agents with visual impairments. TCN is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and enterprises of all sizes in multiple industries in many countries. For more information, visit https://www.tcn.com/ and follow on Twitter @tcn.
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Seagate’s Exos CORVAULT is a fully configured, self-healing, direct-attached storage array which combines Seagate’s highest capacity enterprise disk drives with Seagate’s ADAPT and Autonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) data protection and self-healing technologies. The CORVAULT system presents logical disk groups instead of physical disks to the QuantaStor software and also implements hardware-based erasure coding data protection, which reduces the server CPU resources needed to run QuantaStor by 50% as compared with using JBODs.
QuantaStor uses the CORVAULT’s built-in VelosCT™ ASIC-based ADAPT erasure coding to enable faster system performance and simplified maintenance with faster drive rebuilds within each CORVAULT storage array, eliminating east/west network disk rebuild traffic resulting in less backend system pressure. QuantaStor implements a second layer of erasure coding between CORVAULT systems, significantly increasing system data durability up to 14 9’s.
“Integration and automation of the Seagate Exos CORVAULT systems provides a unique solution to scaling with two-layers of erasure-coding and this is key to enabling customers to deploy clusters in the 100PB-200PB and beyond as Seagate continues to increase per platter densities,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. “With this release we’ve expanded our Seagate Exos CORVAULT integration by adding easy one-click auto-configuration via pre-set profiles which will greatly accelerate deployment times and provide greater consistency.”
QuantaStor’s management and auto-configuration of Seagate CORVAULT units covers the entire line from the 4U106 based Corvault to the new 5U84 Corvault that fits within standard rack depth.
OSNexus QuantaStor enables organizations to replace traditional SAN/NAS systems with standard servers to deliver robust, reliable, and highly scalable object, file, and block storage solutions that are easy to manage. To start designing a QuantaStor solution, see our web based design apps at osnexus.com/design. Go to osnexus.com/freetrial for Trial Edition licenses or write to us at [email protected] for more information.
About OSNexus
Founded in 2010, OSNexus enables organizations to manage their storage as composable infrastructure with its QuantaStor™ industry-leading Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform. The QuantaStor platform provides scale-out file, block, and object storage on commodity hardware as an easy-to-manage storage grid solution.
QuantaStor, is deployed by Fortune 500 companies, government, and major research institutions to address a broad set of storage use cases ranging from backup, archive, cloud computing, virtualization, and high-performance applications.
