Lantern tours lead busy fall at Beverly Heritage Center
New opportunities and the return of some favorite events will be featured this fall at the Beverly Heritage Center. A full schedule of activities is planned for October through Christmas. The Beverly Heritage Center’s new manager, Darryl DeGripp, is seeking assistance with stories for the first Beverly Lantern Tours in October. “We invite Beverly and […]
NASA Astronaut to Headline “Women in Technology” Conference Set for October 18-19 in Wheeling
NASA Astronaut Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger will share her experiences as an astronaut and the qualities it takes to attain that rarified profession during TechConnect West Virginia’s first “Women in Technology: A Formula for Success” conference taking place Oct. 18-19 at Oglebay Resort & Conference Center in Wheeling, conference organizers announced today. “Astronaut Metcalf-Lindenburger has a […]
‘Dysfunctional U.S. politics of today’ topic of lecture to be delivered at Marshall University by Thomas E. Mann
Dr. Thomas E. Mann, W. Averell Harriman chair and senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, will be the first speaker in this fall’s Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) Lecture Series on Constitutional Democracy at Marshall University. Mann will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Marshall University Foundation Hall, […]
MVB Bank Appoints Branch Managers in Key Markets
MVB Bank today announced the appointment of two branch managers at locations in Clarksburg and Morgantown/Cheat Lake/Sabraton, effective immediately. Jacqueline Britt has been named Branch Manager for MVB’s newest location in downtown Clarksburg’s historic district, which is planning to open this fall. Ms. Britt was most recently Branch Manager at MVB’s Morgantown office. Her background […]
MARS Robots: Inspiring Technology Career Paths One Student at a Time
By Diana Mazzella When the school bell stops ringing and the buses have departed, the middle and high school students of West Virginia return to their other lives—the lives where they talk on the phone, shop at the mall, write English essays and eat dinner. For 28 high school students in the Morgantown area, that […]
Renowned scholar to discuss ‘The Eight Rival Religions That Run The World’
Dr. Stephen Prothero, who has been described by Newsweek magazine as “a world religions scholar with the soul of a late-night comic,” will deliver a public lecture Friday, Sept. 28, at Marshall University. Prothero, chair of the department of religion at Boston University, is the featured speaker in the third annual da Vinci Lecture, presented […]