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One of two Shepherd University students who attended the 2018 European Innovation Academy in Turin, Italy, July 9-27 was on a team whose business idea made the top 10. Shaylin Post, an engineering science major from Bridgeport, was on a team with members from Texas, Alabama, Italy, and Indonesia that created a company, Leather Ko,…
West Virginia University is joining with scores of universities in a national initiative to increase college access, close the achievement gap and significantly produce more degrees by 2025. “Powered by Publics” is an initiative of the Association of Land-Grant and Public Universities and involves 130 schools, gathered into 16 different clusters around regions, size and/or…
Sean Murtagh, of Shepherdstown, is the first Shepherd University student to earn a master’s degree through a new University of the West of Scotland (UWS)/Shepherd University partnership. The program makes it possible for any student who has completed the Appalachian Studies Graduate Certificate to add an additional semester of study abroad and receive the UWS…
WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center announces the opening of the Interventional Spine Care Center in Martinsburg and the addition of Shoji Ishigami, M.D., Ph.D, to the medical center staff. Dr. Ishigami, a board certified physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, received his medical degree from the St. George’s University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in…
The Boone Memorial Hospital Black Lung Center in Madison is extending its services across the State of West Virginia by offering free outreach events aimed at helping miners complete their federal black lung claims. On December 5th, the hospital helped 100 miners complete their claims. “Miners have helped build this Country by providing coal to manufacture steel. We want…
Shepherd University and the West Virginia Autism Training Center (WV-ATC), located at Marshall University, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that establishes Shepherd as a WV-ATC campus-based satellite site that will provide services to Shepherd students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and training for faculty and staff through the College Program for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder…