Graduate Student Collaboration with Industry Opens Doors for Career Development

Seven West Virginia University Health Sciences graduate students showcased their research and skills on March 5 to visiting industry representatives and local investors in a dinner encouraging interaction and collaboration between rising student researchers, faculty and private sector representatives. The students represented pharmaceutical and pharmacological sciences, physiology and pharmacology, cellular and integrative physiology, basic pharmaceutical…

WVSU Extension Service Seeks Small Fruit Farmers for Vineyard Tour

Fruit farmers and others interested in small fruit production, particularly grape production, are invited on a vineyard tour at Kirkwood Winery in Summersville hosted by West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service Saturday, March 23. The educational tour is the first of a planned series of vineyard tours throughout the state intended to increase interest…

WV Innovation & Entrepreneurship on Display at State Capitol Monday

West Virginia’s high-tech economy will be on full display at the State Capitol from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., on Monday, March 11 during “Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day,” hosted by Industries of the Future-West Virginia (IOF-WV) and TechConnect West Virginia.  Media are encouraged to attend. Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect West Virginia, said, “We…

WVU Parkersburg Students Earn Top Honors at National Forensic Tournament

WVU Parkersburg’s Union for Speech and Debate took home top honors from the Collegiate Forensic Association (CFA) at the Beach tournament in Ocean City, Md. on March 1. Tyler Ohrn, Matt Roberts, Scott Richardson, Jason Ross, Alicia Ford, Nichole Milliren, Morgan Bryant and Theresa Overby comprised the team for WVU Parkersburg. Tyler Orhn won Lincoln-Douglas…

WVU Press Publishes Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner

West Virginia University Press has published Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner, edited by Jean Cole and with a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, a professor at WVU. Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was born free, but poor, in South Carolina. He joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a young man and…

Gov. Tomblin Provides Update on Call for Mine Safety Stand-Down

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin provided an update regarding Executive Order 1-13 which mandated a statewide mine safety stand-down. “I appreciate our coal companies and their employees reinforcing their commitment to safety during the mine safety stand-down,” Gov. Tomblin said. “I’m also grateful for the men and women of the Office of Miners’ Health Safety and…