WVU Forensic Science Initiative Offers Crime Scene Course for Legal Professionals
The Forensic Science Initiative at West Virginia University (WVU) is offering a course this summer to lawyers, crime lab employees and law enforcement officers for a chance to learn about and experience a crime scene firsthand. Seven lawyers and a professor are currently enrolled in “Basic Crime Scene Investigation for Legal Professionals,” a weekend-long course, offered […]
Medical students at Marshall University Publish Inaugural Edition of Creative Works
“Aenigma Medicorum,” a literary and art review recently published by medical students at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, features poetry, photography, musical selections and short essays about life as seen through the eyes of medical students and physicians. The idea germinated with the student members of the school’s Multicultural Affairs Committee […]
WVU School of Journalism’s IMC Program Offering Online Professional Development Courses This Fall
The West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism’s online graduate program in Integrated Marketing Communications will offer a series of four online professional development courses this fall. These classes will help communicators brush up on best practices in today’s changing media environment. The first class, “Social Media Tools and Techniques,” will be offered Aug. […]
Boone Memorial Hospital Accounts for 1/3 of the Total Monies Raised at Relay for Life and Nearly Half the Participants
Each year the American Cancer Society holds its Relay for Life in local communities across the country, like Madison. This year, the event was held on June 7, 2013 at the Madison Civic Center. Generally the event is held outdoors but due to weather complications the ACS moved the Relay indoors. BMH has been a […]
WVU-Based NAFTC Appointed to Governor’s Natural Gas Vehicle Transition Team
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, D-W.Va., has appointed the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC), a program of West Virginia University, to the Governor’s Natural Gas Vehicle Transition Team. This appointment was recommended as part of the Governor’s Natural Gas Task Force final report, released in February of this year. In the report, the Task Force […]
Boone Memorial Hospital Names Employee of the Month
Boone Memorial Hospital would like to recognize the June 2013 Employee of the Month, Elizabeth “Libby” Brown. Libby is originally from West Virginia but moved to Tennessee for almost 12 years and eventually returned back to WV to be closer to her parents and family. She currently resides in Wharton in Boone County and has […]