Meet Award-Winning Authors at Winter Blues Farmers Market Feb. 28

Six Headline Books authors will sign books from 3-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at the annual Winter Blues Farmers Market at the Morgantown Event Center, 3 Waterfront Place. Children’s authors will read during a story time for kids. Reading will be: Barbara Myers and Lily Hamilton of Morgantown, authors of Lily & Nana, a children’s…

Engineering a Dream: A Freshman’s Drive toward a NASCAR Career

If you ask Travis Braden if he has a Plan B in life, you won’t get an answer. A freshman planning to study mechanical engineering at West Virginia University, Braden is dead set on becoming a NASCAR legend. The 18-year-old Wheeling native is already on the right track. He was named the 2011 NASCAR Whelen…

West Liberty University Selects Dr. Brian L. Crawford as Provost

Dr. Brian L. Crawford was named provost at West Liberty University. “The selection of a provost is one of the most important decisions a university makes in terms of leadership and management. And it’s a decision upon which we — as a university — have worked together over the last few months, constantly mindful of…

WVU’s Clements Appointed to Prestigious Business-Education Group; Attends First Meeting this Week

West Virginia University President Jim Clements has been selected as a member of the Business-Higher Education Forum, the nation’s oldest organization of senior business and higher education executives dedicated to advancing innovative solutions to U.S. education and workforce challenges as well as issues related to global competitiveness. Clements will join BHEF’s other members – executives…