INTO Marshall Center to Celebrate Grand Opening Thursday

INTO Marshall will celebrate its grand opening at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the INTO Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. INTO  officials will host tours of the facility as well as a reception following a ribbon cutting. INTO Marshall is located at East Hall, former home of the Marshall Community and Technical College.…

WVU Festival of Ideas: Founder of Nuru International speaks Oct. 17

Jake Harriman, founder and CEO of Nuru International, will visit West Virginia University as part of this year’s David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas on Oct. 17. His talk, “The End: Nuru’s Vision for a World Without Poverty,” begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. It is free and open to the public.…

Coal Miner’s Daughter Picture Book Wins Gold in Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards

The story of a little girl coming to terms with her daddy’s dangerous job has won Gold in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Shovelful of Sunshine, by Stacie Vaughn Hutton, illustrated by Cheryl Harness, and published by Headline Kids, an imprint of Headline Books in Terra Alta, W.Va., won Gold in Moonbeam’s category for books…

WVU Press Publishes Listening to the Land: Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley

West Virginia University Press has published Listening to the Land: Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley and invites the public to join The Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust and Listening to the Land contributors at upcoming book launch celebrations. The Cacapon and Lost River Valley is located in the Appalachian Mountains of…