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West Virginia PEIA Selects UMR/UnitedHealthcare to Administer Health Care Benefits for State Employees

UnitedHealthcare  will administer the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency’s (PEIA) health care benefits for the state’s covered employees and their families, effective July 1, 2019. UnitedHealthcare, through its UMR third-party administration business, will collaborate with PEIA and its staff to manage the state’s health care benefits program, providing clinical, claims and member-advocacy services, including […]

Philanthropy WV Announces 2019 New Board Leadership

Philanthropy West Virginia announces its new board members and officers for 2019.  The philanthropic leadership association represents over 80 foundations, corporate giving programs, united ways, philanthropists, and professional advisors in the Mountain State. “Philanthropy West Virginia is fortunate to have a dynamic and extraordinary board of philanthropic leaders representing a diversity of grantmaking institutions, corporations, […]

3D printing workshop offers family fun, learning

Families looking for a way to have fun together and learn something, too, can participate in a 3D Design and Printing Workshop Tuesday, January 22, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) in Huntington. This is the first in a series of Maker Fundamentals workshops for children and adults […]

Marshall food pantry open to federal employees needing food assistance

Marshall University’s Department of Dietetics will open the doors to its food pantry beginning Saturday, Jan. 19, to federal government employees who need food assistance. Dr. Kelli Williams, chair of the university’s dietetics program, said the university will continue to do what it can with regard to emergency food relief. “We are deeply committed to […]

Marshall University president honored with 2019 Living the Dream Award

Dr. Jerome A. Gilbert, president of Marshall University, has been named a 2019 recipient of the “Living the Dream Award” in the area of scholarship from the West Virginia Martin Luther King Jr. State Holiday Commission. Gilbert and other winners will be honored Monday during a ceremony at Asbury United Methodist Church in Charleston.  The […]