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Representatives of the state’s mining industry will gather at Tamarack in Beckley on Thursday, Oct. 4, for the 2012 Miners’ Celebration—a conference and reception to celebrate the past, present and future of West Virginia’s coal mining enterprise. The free program will begin at 3 p.m. with a series of short presentations to highlight successes in…
Alumni of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine gather in Huntington today and Saturday for the 26th annual alumni weekend. Today’s events include continuing medical education sessions featuring the Dr. Tara and Indu Wable Sharma Annual Memorial Lecture with keynote speaker Henri J. Roca III, M.D., beginning at 2:15 p.m. The lecture…
The U.S. Small Business Administration is partnering with the West Virginia Development Office International Division, the U.S. Export Assistance Center, the West Virginia District Export Council, and the West Virginia Women’s Business Center to provide expert information on export assistance programs. The program, scheduled for Beckley on Sept. 12 and Charleston Sept. 13, is intended…
The West Virginia Small Business Development Center and the West Virginia Women’s Business Center will be holding a Veterans Resource Expo on Thursday, Sept. 20 from 12 to 4 p.m. at the New River Community & Technical College Advanced Technology Center in Ghent, W.Va. The Expo is free and open to veterans and those interested…
Since 2004, September has been designated as National Preparedness Month (NPM) to encourage households, businesses and communities to prepare and plan for emergencies. The event, now in its ninth year, is a nationwide effort hosted by FEMA’s Ready Campaign and the national Citizen Corps program. The theme for this year’s NPM is “Pledge to Prepare.”…
The June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development in the College of Education at Marshall University was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from Alcon Laboratories, Inc., to expand funding for the Arts and Bots project. Arts and Bots integrates technology, literature and history through the use of familiar art supplies, circuit boards, lights,…