5th Annual Policy Institute Focuses on Building Partnerships

Thee state’s leadership associations for philanthropy, Philanthropy West Virginia, and nonprofits, the West Virginia Nonprofit Association, will host their joint Annual Policy Institute on Friday, December 14, 2018 in Charleston, WV. The fifth annual policy institute that brings the state’s foundation, corporate giving programs, and nonprofits to come together with state policy makers at the…

Marshall University named a Best Business School by The Princeton Review

Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business has been ranked as an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles the school in its 2019 annual business school rankings at www.princetonreview.com/business-school-rankings/best-business-schools According to Robert Franek, Princeton Review editor-in-chief, “We recommend Marshall University as one of the best to earn an M.B.A.…

WVU Cancer Institute studies new treatment for colorectal cancer using novel drug combination

Once colorectal cancer invades another organ—the liver or lung, for instance—a cancer patient has about a 13 percent chance of living five more years. Richard Goldberg, who directs the West Virginia University Cancer Institute, is searching for new ways to slow this cancer’s progression. In a recent study, he and an international team of scientists…