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Airbnb, the world’s leading community-driven hospitality company, announced today that Morgantown hosts earned over $21,000 in income while welcoming an additional 230 guests to the city last weekend during the West Virginia University commencement (May 10-13). This represented the third largest surge of guests to Morgantown in the history of Airbnb’s platform, behind only a couple football weekends from…
The Center for Consumer Law and Education, a joint program between West Virginia University College of Law and Marshall University, has joined a federal program that empowers consumers. The CCLE is now a member of “Your Money, Your Goals,” a grassroots initiative of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CCLE is one of 40 organizations nationally admitted into the…
Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the Water Research Institute at West Virginia University’s Energy Institute, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Tuesday, May 14, on recent research advances on the development of a domestic source of rare earth elements. RREs, the minerals that make electronic devices work, are essential to the economy and national security. …
One faculty member from each of West Liberty University’s five colleges were named faculty of the year at the Honors Convocation held in Kelly Theatre recently. “We decided to pick the best professor from each college since many times, the college with the biggest enrollment has an advantage. This way more professors are rewarded for…
A Women Owning Woodlands (WOW) workshop will be held for the first time in West Virginia. The WOW weekend workshop is scheduled for May 31 – June 2 in Watoga State Park and Calvin Price State Forest in Pocahontas County. The session covers practical skills such as how to identify common types of trees, manage…
Rachel Merino, Behavioral Health and Dentistry Operations Administrator at Valley Health Systems, Inc., on March 30 was among 12 recipients from across the country recognized with the Geiger Gibson Emerging Leader Award at a ceremony held during the 2019 National Association of Community Health Centers Policy and Issues Forum in Washington, D.C. “It is rare to…