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The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) recently awarded $82,000 in early stage funding to 10 West Virginia companies and entrepreneurs to help develop new products, market existing goods and services and provide training to facilitate business expansion. The recipients and awards are: Blenko Glass Company of Milton – $10,000 to design and create new molds…
Pam Murphy, Chief Operating Officer at Infor, a global leader in business cloud software, will provide keynote remarks at the 2019 Women & Technology Conference. The event, which aims to address the under-representation of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Charleston on…
Traci West-McCombs has been named registrar of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She previously served as interim registrar since 2018 and associate registrar since 2016 at West Virginia State University. Before joining WVSU, West-McCombs was the jury administrator for the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia. She also worked for…
Cabell Huntington Hospital’s Center for Surgical Weight Control has been named a Center of Excellence (COE) for bariatric surgery by the Clinical Sciences Institute of Optum®. A COE designation is given to medical practices that combine top-quality clinical care with excellent patient support and better patient outcomes. Optum Centers of Excellence are reviewed annually and…
Southern West Virginia Community College will be hosting its first-ever Appalachian Heritage Day. The event will include award-winning old-time musicians, scholars, authors, and various other vendors from around the state and region. All media are invited to attend. Video and still photography opportunities are available, and the assembled artisans will be available for interviews. WHAT:…
Commerce Secretary Ed Gaunch today completed his latest set of visits to local businesses throughout West Virginia as part of an ongoing statewide listening tour. Secretary Gaunch’s recent stops came in the southern West Virginia counties of Wyoming and Raleigh, Aug. 13 and 14. “Southern West Virginia has suffered more from the downturn in the…