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William B. Grant, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of First United Bank & Trust, and Keith R. Sanders, senior vice president and senior trust officer of First United Trust & Investments announced the promotion of Eric Delaney to First United Trust & Investments vice president. Mr. Grant commented, “Eric’s expertise and experience…
More students at the West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism will have the opportunity to realize their academic potential thanks to 1975 alumna and Clarksburg native Jane McNeer. McNeer has established The Hilda G. and James E. McNeer Journalism Scholarship in honor of her parents. McNeer, who has more than 30 years of…
The West Virginia State University (WVSU) Chapter of the NAACP has received a national award for the largest membership increase among college chapters in the organization. The WVSU Chapter received the 2013 Chairman’s Trophy at the 104th annual NAACP Convention in Orlando, Fla., in July. Charity Hightower, an elementary education major at WVSU, is president…
When Shay Bloxton discovered pulsar 1926-1314 in 2009, she was in high school. Through the confluence of lines that symbolized radio waves, she saw evidence of the remains of a supernova, a neutron star known as a pulsar. She and hundreds of other teenage radio wave hunters across the country have shown that high school…
The Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Appalachian Center of the West Virginia University National Research Center for Coal and Energy will be hosting two technology workshops for the shale gas industry on Sept. 4 and 5 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe near Canonsburg, Pa. The Sept. 4 workshop, Wellbore Integrity, will explore the latest…
The start of the fall semester at Marshall University is always a time of change on the Huntington campus. Yesterday, the first day of classes, was no exception as thousands of students quickly discovered. The most eye-catching change this fall is in the center of campus where green space, along with new lights, trees and…