WVU Parkersburg Launches Mentor Program to Increase Student Success

West Virginia University at Parkersburg’s new Riverhawks Mentorship Program is in full swing for the fall semester following a successful first run during the summer. The program, led by Dr. Christine Guns, coordinator of developmental education, is designed to assist students in developing the skills necessary to complete college. “We’ve received a lot of positive […]

BB&T Continues Support for Capitalism Center at Marshall

Marshall University received the seventh installment in a series of gifts from BB&T supporting the BB&T Center for the Advancement of American Capitalism at MU’s College of Business on August 19. David L. Helmer, Senior Vice President and Regional Corporate Banking Manager for BB&T, presented the latest check for $100,000 to Marshall President Dr. Stephen […]

University Healthcare, The Wellness Center at Berkeley Medical Center, Local Physician Offer a New Running Clinic, Strength Training for Runners

Are you new to running?  An avid runner who wants to improve performance?  Prevent injury?  Dr. Mark Cucuzzella is offering a new clinic, “Strength Training for Runners,” at The Wellness Center at Berkeley Medical Center. Cucuzzella, nationally ranked distance runner, local physician and founder and organizer of Freedom’s Run and the Harpers Ferry Half Marathon, […]

Football Stadium Named to Honor WLU’s All–Time Biggest Donor, Gary E. West & Family

West Liberty University announced today the naming of its new football stadium, the West Family Stadium, in honor of WLU’s biggest all-time donor, Gary E. West. “Gary’s continued generosity to our university makes it appropriate to name the new stadium after the West Family. His leadership and remarkable philanthropy is visionary. Our students, alumni, staff […]

Quality Service Award Recipient Announced at Berkeley Medical Center

Miriam Brancato, RN, was recently named University Healthcare Berkeley Medical Center’s Quality Service Award winner for May 2014. Each month, the hospital’s Service Award Committee selects an employee to receive the Quality Service Award.  Brancato, a staff nurse on the Behavioral Health Unit, was selected because she is “an outstanding nurse and role model to […]