Downtown PKB Names New Events & Marketing Coordinator
Andrea Shirey has been named as Downtown PKB’s Events & Marketing Coordinator, a newly created temporary, part-time position for the organization. Downtown PKB promotes downtown Parkersburg, fosters economic opportunity and creates community vitality. Our goal is to create a vibrant commercial district that will provide downtown businesses, workers and nearby residents with the goods and […]
Cultivating Connections: Tamarack’s Emerging Artist Fellowship
By Emma Pepper Rosalie Haizlett and Hannah Lenhart represent the top emerging creative talent coming out of West Virginia’s communities today. Selected by a committee of creative professionals working at the top of their fields, they are the first artists to be chosen for the new Tamarack Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellowship program. […]
McDonie Family Establishes Marshall School of Medicine Scholarship
Joseph and Karen McDonie have established a scholarship with the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine for future medical students. The Joseph K. and Karen P. McDonie Scholarship honors the memory of the couple’s late parents—Braxton and June McDonie and Clarence and Jeanne Pratt. Both Joe and Karen McDonie were raised in the […]
When Masking Is Revealing: The Catharsis of Fasnacht
By Clara Lehmann “When we put on a mask, we think we’re hiding, but we’re really revealing.” That is a quote from Michael Roh, an award-winning mathematics and physics teacher at University High School in Morgantown, WV. With an engineering degree from West Virginia University (WVU), Roh is not only an exceptional teacher, but he […]
West Liberty University’s Dr. Joe Horzempa Named Finalist for Professor of the Year
Dr. Joseph Horzempa, associate professor of biology at West Liberty University, has been selected as one of five finalists for West Virginia Professor of the Year by the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia. “This is one of the highest awards that a professor can receive and we congratulate Dr. Horzempa for this honor. He […]
SBA to Launch $1.2 Million Aspire Challenge
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently announced Aspire Challenge, a prize competition of up to $1.2 million to expand access to entrepreneurial education and microloans for formerly incarcerated individuals. The competition will make up to 16 awards of $75,000 to organizations across the nation to assist in delivering entrepreneurial training and microloan assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals. […]