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The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding eligible private non-profit (PNP) organizations in West Virginia of the Sept. 24 deadline to submit disaster loan applications for damages caused by the severe storms and flooding on June 13, 2013. These loans are available to PNPs in Mason and Roane counties. Examples of eligible non-critical PNP organizations…
A national high school program that offers random drug testing to volunteer high school students is making headway in the local area. Drug Free Clubs of America has been operating for about four years in the Wheeling area. Recently the organization received a real boost when West Liberty University offered $500 scholarships to students from…
Concord University will officially launch an Entrepreneurship Initiative on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. The program begins at 9 a.m. in Room 304 of the Rahall Technology Center on Concord’s Athens campus. The initiative, coordinated by Concord’s Division of Business, is made possible through support from the Shott Foundation and other resources. Along with benefitting Concord’s…
Washington Post writer, movie producer and author of the new book “The Butler: A Witness to History,” Wil Haygood will kick off the 2013-14 University of Charleston Speaker Series sponsored by Dow Chemical Company Foundation on Tuesday, Sept. 24. UC will host a book signing for Haygood in UC-Charleston’s Riggleman Hall’s Rotunda in Charleston, W.Va.,…
West Liberty University’s College of Education has been awarded a $49,000 grant from the Charles M. Pugliese and Thelma M. Pugliese Charitable Foundation, Wintersville, Ohio. “This grant was a collaborative effort between academics and athletics and I appreciate the team of faculty and coaches who worked with us to write and secure this generous grant,”…
The Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Appalachian Center of the West Virginia University National Research Center for Coal and Energy will be hosting a workshop on innovative water management for the shale gas industry on Thursday, Aug. 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown. Water management has become a…