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Acorn Technologies, one of the Charleston area’s most experienced independent technology consulting firms, is pleased to announce the addition of fractional leadership to its service offerings. Fractional leadership roles are quickly becoming an item in high demand due to the uncertainty of economic factors. “Businesses are having to learn to benefit from a leaner operation…
The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Lisa M. Hawrot and Ronald M. Musser have joined its Wheeling, W.Va. office as counsel. Hawrot has represented parties in West Virginia and Ohio in all aspects of complex family law for more than 15 years. Last year, she successfully argued an adoption matter before…
After a childhood steeped in creative literature – much of it science fiction – and a talent for composing his own poetry and prose, Sandy Baldwin grew up and took a job writing technical manuals for a software company. There he witnessed with fascination the rapid evolution of the Internet, the rise of personal computing,…
Lindsay Deel calls the Chesapeake Bay region home, a home she’s working to protect from ecological collapse. Deel, who grew up in Hampton, Va., is using her work as a graduate research assistant in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University to safeguard the bay’s ecology. She recently received funding to continue…
Lowe Del G. Aviles, International Student Liaison at Davis & Elkins College, was among presenters at a NAFSA: Association of International Educators forum that focused on how institutions and staff can successfully work with and respond to the diversity of Pakistani students studying in the United States. According to the Institute of International Education’s 2011…
For the second straight year, the Mountaineer Robotics team from West Virginia University has been selected to participate in the Robo-Ops competition to be held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Rock Yard. The event is scheduled for June, 2013. This year’s team will be partnering with students from Bluefield State College. Joining WVU in this…