Pediatric Obesity Topic Community Seminar
WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center and the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Eastern Division will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on obesity in children. The seminar titled Pediatric Obesity–Prevention and Treatment will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences […]
WVU LaunchLab Hosts Inaugural Women’s Pitch Competition
West Virginia University’s LaunchLab Network hosted its first Women’s Pitch Competition on October 26 to encourage female students to push the limits of their entrepreneurial ideas, develop products and business models and showcase the results in a tightly-timed presentation to a panel of judges. Eight students participated and the top three contenders were awarded monetary […]
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital Officially Joins Mon Health
Approval of a Certificate of Need by the West Virginia Health Care Authority to allow Mon Health to become the sole member of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital occurred in September. The transaction was finalized effective Oct. 1. In addition to Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital, Mon Health includes Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, Mon Health […]
Glenville State College Closes on 39 Million Bond in Continued Campus Efficiency Efforts
Glenville State College has completed a $39 million bond issuance as a part of ongoing efforts to manage expenses and cut costs to create more opportunities to help students. Representatives from the College’s Board of Governors and members of GSC’s Business and Finance team joined President Tracy Pellett on Tuesday, September 27 to finalize the […]
Technology Jobs Open Up for Community College Students
The WV Community and Technical College System (CTCS) is always looking for new opportunities to assist people seeking employment or retraining. The system works closely with employers to train people in programs that prepare them for high-paying, in-demand jobs. Mined Minds had a need for well-trained software developers, so they developed a training boot camp […]
HSTA: Making Good on a West Virginia Promise
By Bethany Hornbeck By West Virginians, for West Virginians. That is the claim of the Health Sciences and Technology Academy, known throughout the state as HSTA. HSTA lives up to that promise, as do the young professionals who have come out of the program over the last 20 years. By West Virginians HSTA is a […]
