RISE West Virginia Awards Over $1.4 Million to Flood-impacted Small Businesses

West Virginia Department of Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette today announced that RISE West Virginia has awarded more than $1.4 million to small businesses in 11 counties. RISE West Virginia is the state’s long-term recovery initiative aimed at revitalizing local economies affected by the June 2016 flooding. “We launched RISE West Virginia to help our state’s…

NOAA’s GOES-R Satellite Heads to Orbit to Improve Weather Forecast Accuracy and Speed

GOES-R, the first of NOAA’s highly advanced geostationary weather satellites, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:42 p.m. EST today, on its way to boost the nation’s weather observation network and NOAA’s prediction capabilities, leading to more accurate and timely forecasts, watches and warnings. In two weeks, once GOES-R is situated in orbit 22,300…

West Virginia Colleges Support Student Veterans with 5 Star Challenge

State officials are applauding West Virginia’s public colleges and universities for stepping up their efforts to support student veterans. During a meeting of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission earlier today, Dr. Paul Hill, Chancellor of the Commission, reported that all of the state’s public higher education institutions have met or exceeded the goals…

West Virginia State University Criminal Justice Students Take Top Honors at Conference

West Virginia State University (WVSU) Criminal Justice students walked away with top honors at the annual West Virginia Criminal Justice Educators Association conference Nov. 3-4 at the University’s Institute campus. WVSU Criminal Justice students swept the undergraduate paper competition at the annual conference, which represents all colleges and universities in West Virginia that offer Criminal…

Compound Identified by Marshall School of Pharmacy Research Team May Fight Superbugs

Jordan G. Sheppard, a third-year Marshall University School of Pharmacy student, along with school of pharmacy assistant professor Timothy E. Long, Ph.D., recently published research findings in the journal, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, from an initial study showing promise for a new tool in the fight against multidrug-resistant superbugs. Among the most dangerous superbugs…