Capito, Manchin Announce $1.9 Million to Improve Forensic Science, Sexual Assault DNA Testing
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,955,182 from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to the state of West Virginia. This funding will provide support for improved forensic science services, deliver jurisdictions with resources to improve efficiency of sexual assault kits and DNA […]
WV SBDC Partners with Brad D. Smith Business Incubator for Small Business Services
The West Virginia Small Business Development Center (WV SBDC) announced today that their Huntington Center will relocate to the Brad D. Smith Business Incubator, located on the first floor of the Marshall University Visual Arts Center at 927 Third Ave., across from Pullman Plaza. The Incubator, which opened in 2019, provides space for entrepreneurs to […]
West Virginia State University President Dr. Nicole Pride to Keynote Virtual Women & Technology Conference October 19
Dr. Nicole Pride, the president of West Virginia State University (WVSU), will offer keynote remarks at the 2020 Women & Technology Conference. The event, which aims to address the under-representation of women in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), will be held virtually on October 19, from 9 a.m. to noon. “We’re […]
New Organ Donation Ads Released for National Hunting & Fishing Month, Feature West Virginian with Special Connection to Organ Donation
In observance of National Hunting and Fishing Month, Donate Life West Virginia is launching a statewide ad campaign to encourage organ and tissue donation registration via hunting and fishing license applications. West Virginia is one of the first states in the nation to provide an organ donation registration option in the hunting and fishing licensing […]
Finishing Touches Added to Myles Plaza
A pair of bronze cast dancers are now poised on Myles Plaza and a glass and steel cupola crowned with a silhouette of the sculpture stands high atop the rotunda entrance to Myles Center for the Arts on the campus of Davis & Elkins College. Both pieces were installed this week as the $6.7 million […]
West Virginia State University 4-H Program Inspiring Young Gardeners at Raleigh County Schools
A 4-H program by West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service is inspiring a generation of young gardeners to design, develop, tend and harvest their own school gardens and fruit tree orchards at three Raleigh County schools. Through WVSU’s Sowing Young Sprouts program, 4-H Extension Agent Tiffany Ward teaches kids about garden design, construction, planting, […]
