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The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce announced the 2018 recipients of the Five-Diamond Employer Award during its Human Resources Conference on Thursday, April 26th. The Thrasher Group, which has three offices and over 300 employees in the state, was one of sixteen companies recognized. The Five-Diamond designation recognizes outstanding companies for their employee policies, continuing…
Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that several of the firm’s practice groups and attorneys were recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers USA, a directory of leading law firms and attorneys published annually. Chambers and Partners annually researches the strength and reputation of law firms and individual lawyers across the globe. The research process…
West Virginia American Water announced today, on International Firefighters’ Day, that applications are now being accepted for the company’s 2018 Firefighting Support Grants program. The program provides financial assistance to fire and emergency organizations serving communities in the company’s service area. Established in 2013, West Virginia American Water’s Firefighting Support Grant program offers grant funding…
A record number of students – five – from West Virginia University have been selected to participate in National Science Foundation-funded summer research fellowships with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Home to three Nobel Prize winners, NIST is one of the leading research organizations in the world. The students will spend 11 weeks…
Shepherd University has entered into a $600,000, five-year cost-sharing agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to provide opportunities for veterans to become agricultural entrepreneurs throughout West Virginia. The funding will be used to develop conservation systems on the university-owned Tabler farm, which sits northwest of West Campus, and assist…
Bonnie’s Bus, a digital mammography center on wheels, will visit the Eastern Panhandle in May, offering three-dimensional (3D) digital mammograms and breast care education to area women. Berkeley Senior Services and the WVU Cancer Institute are sponsoring the Berkeley County visit. Bonnie’s Bus will be parked at Berkeley Senior Services, 217 North High Street in…