Spilman Adds Depth to Private Client Services

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) is pleased to announce attorney Staci N. Criswell has joined the firm as Counsel, adding significant depth to the firm’s robust Private Client Services Industry Group. Her practice will focus on estate planning, trust and estate administration, and litigation in these areas. A leading West Virginia attorney in trust…

Geohazards Forum to Address Shared Transportation Challenges

Consultants, contractors and representatives of state and federal agencies involved with planning, monitoring, design and construction of transportation systems will gather at the Clarion Hotel in Lexington, Ky., Aug. 5-7 for the 14th annual Technical Forum, Geohazards Impacting Transportation in Appalachia. The forum, sponsored by the Marshall University Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences…

West Virginia State Associate Professor Named to High School Sports Hall of Fame

A long-time West Virginia State University (WVSU) associate professor and one time Yellow Jacket football coach has been inducted into the Newton Vocational/N.H. Pilate High School Sports Hall of Fame in Newton, Miss. Oree Banks, associate professor of Health and Human Performance, was honored by his former high school at a ceremony earlier this month…

Medical Students at Marshall University Publish Second Edition of Creative Works

Sir William Osler, often referred to as the father of modern medicine, is credited with calling the practice of medicine an art, not a trade. Certainly echoing that sentiment is “Aenigma Medicorum,” an annual literary and art review by medical students at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, which contains dozens of…