The “Year of the Renaissance” was proclaimed at Concord University during a Founders Day Celebration marking the institution’s 142nd anniversary. The event was held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 in the Main Theatre of the Alexander Fine Arts Center. Concord received its charter from the West Virginia Legislature on February 28, 1872.…
West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service is seeking growers to participate in a research project to determine the viability of regional hops production. The project is designed to help West Virginia’s farmers tap into an unmet and continually growing industry need. “We’re working to connect West Virginia farmers with the commerical production of hops…
Randa Nazem Al-Jayoussi, MD, a fellowship-trained and board-certified endocrinologist, has joined Cabell Huntington Hospital, Marshall Internal Medicine and the Chertow Diabetes Center at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Al-Jayoussi is an experienced endocrinologist who earned her medical degree at Jordan University in Amman, Jordan and completed residency training at Lincoln Medical…
Like the neo-tropical migrants they come to see, guests for the annual New River Birding & Nature Festival travel thousands of miles on their appointed spring rounds. Entering their 12th year of operation, festival organizers have hosted participants from 46 of the 50 states (the Dakotas, Alaska and Hawaii being the missing parts) and from…
The West Virginia University Disordered Eating Center in Charleston, W.Va. is joining the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) this week as it marks National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAwareness Week), Feb. 23 – March 1, in an annual campaign to bring public attention to the critical needs of people with eating disorders and their families. During NEDAwareness…
At just 13 years of age, Noah Miller knew he wanted to be a chef. During his first job, working under the guidance of Otis Laury at the West Virginia Governor’s Mansion, Miller began his journey into the culinary world, learning the basics of classic cooking.