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By Cullen Naumoff Local educators now have a new tool to help prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s opportunities thanks to the Charleston Area Alliance (CAA). The Educator|Industry Institute (E|II), launched in July 2012, gives educators an inside look at the operations and career possibilities within the region’s industries, including energy, chemical and automotive. The goal…
Two new members have been appointed to the West Liberty University Foundation, Inc., Louis P. Cardamone and Dr. Daniel I. Joseph. Cardamone is a 1965 graduate of West Liberty. Prior to that he served in the U.S. Army and attended New Mexico Highlands University for one year. He earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in…
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine biomedical sciences students, in collaboration with students from West Virginia University, the University of Kentucky and Ohio University, will host the first Appalachian Regional Cell Conference in an effort to expand the field of cell biology research in the region. The conference is scheduled to begin at…
Daniel Feller, Ph.D., the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Amicus Curiae Lecture Series at Marshall University. Feller’s lecture, titled The People’s Will Denied? Backroom Politics And The Election Of 1824, is the second in the Amicus Curiae fall 2012…
Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva, an assistant professor in Marshall University’s department of history, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, in the Drinko Library auditorium (room 402) on Marshall’s Huntington campus. Tabyshalieva will discuss her new book, a volume she co-edited with Albrecht Schnabel, called Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Published this…
Donald L. “Don” Blankenship, a 1972 Marshall University graduate, has generously committed $300,000 over a three-year period for scholarships at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Blankenship made the pledge in honor of his mother, Nancy Marie McCoy, who passed away in 1995. The first $100,000 gift was received in early September. “The demographics…