Future leader: Mia Upshaw, a sophomore at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, has been invited as a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders conference this week in Lowell, Massachusetts. The congress begins today and runs through Wednesday. The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical fields. “Upshaw was nominated by Dr. Robert Darling, the Medical Director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists to represent Louisiana based on her academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine,” according to a news release.
Going green: Monroe-based CenturyLink will reduce its network power consumption by about 22,000 megawatt-hours though a project with Nokia. The deal, announced this morning, is expected to create energy efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the company says in a news release. “By optimizing our network, we will reduce Public Switched Telephone Network power consumption by 37%, which will be enough power to supply approximately 2,000 homes with electricity for a year and will also eliminate approximately 15,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas a year,” Maxine Moreau, CenturyLink’s executive vice president of global operations, says in a statement. See the full release.
Switching gears: The CEO of Schlumberger says the world’s largest oilfield services company is slowly switching to offense after calling the “bottom” of the oil bust, FuelFix.com reports. Chairman and CEO Paal Kibsgaard said Friday the “challenging” negotiations have begun to undo the deep discounts offered to oil producers during the downturn for services companies to maintain or grow their market shares. But it isn’t sustainable to keep operating at a loss in the North American shale, he said. He also cautioned that the recovery will be methodical and slow. The third quarter of the year won’t be much better than the second. After all, Schlumberger terminated 16,000 jobs in the first six months of the year. Read the full story.
