ESGR Announces West Virginia’s Nominations for 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense operational committee, announced 13 West Virginia Guard and Reserve members nominated their employers for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The agency received 2,899 nominations nationwide. The Freedom Award is the Department of Defense’s highest recognition for employers supporting employees…

Commitment to Service Helps WVU 4-H-ers Earn National 4-H Club of the Year Honor

The West Virginia University Collegiate 4-H Club was named national club of the year on Saturday, March 16, at the 2013 National Collegiate 4-H Conference in Columbia, Mo. The Club’s service projects helped reach nearly 57,000 people through educational, youth-development and heritage-based events. Club President Alec James, a junior exercise physiology major from New Manchester,…

Orion Strategies Releases New Statewide Poll

Hillary Clinton is nine percentage points ahead of an unnamed Republican candidate, West Virginians aren’t satisfied that “things are headed in the right direction” and West Virginia is not ready for legalized marijuana, according to a wide-ranging poll conducted by Orion Strategies. Orion Strategies conducted the statewide, live-interview telephone survey of historic voters in West…

Money Talks When It Comes to Losing Weight, Mayo Clinic Study Finds

Weight loss study participants who received financial incentives were more likely to stick with a weight loss program and lost more weight than study participants who received no incentives, according to Mayo Clinic research presented Saturday, March 9 at the American College of Cardiology’s 62nd Annual Scientific Session. Previous studies have shown that financial incentives…

Study Abroad Motivates WVU Alumnus to Help Save Baseball in Latin America

When economics professor William Trumbull suggested to his students to bring a few baseballs and baseball cards with them on a study abroad trip to Cuba as part of an economics class, Justin Halladay didn’t balk. Any opportunity to pick up a ball again was one he’d never take for granted. Baseball was his life…