Huggins family donates $100,000 to WVU’s College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences

Bob and June Huggins have donated $100,000 to West Virginia University’s College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences. These funds will be used to create an endowment for undergraduate athletic coaching education students and to provide support for CPASS’ new building, which is currently under construction. The Bob and June Huggins Academic Endowment for Athletic […]

SBA to Co-Sponsor Exporting Workshop in Beckley

Are you an established business interested in learning how to grow your sales internationally? If so, join the West Virginia District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration as we participate in a free workshop targeted to help small businesses excel at selling products and services abroad. The workshop will be held on Thursday, August […]

Marshall Names Tracy Smith Director of Environmental Health and Safety

Tracy Smith, a health and safety specialist at Marshall University for the past six years, has been named Director of Environmental Health and Safety at MU, Dr. Karen Kirtley, senior vice president for administration, announced today. Smith assumed his position this summer. “Tracy has done an excellent job as a health and safety specialist,” Kirtley […]

WVU Eberly College Alumnus Establishes Travel Fund for History Doctoral Students

Doctoral students within the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Department of History at West Virginia University are benefiting from a $30,000 gift made by distinguished history alumnus Greg Monahan, of Portland, Ore. The gift will fund the Greg Monahan Travel Award for European History, a scholarship that will offset the travel expenses of students […]

WVU Accepting Nominations for Honorary Doctoral Degrees

The Office of the Provost at West Virginia University is now accepting nominations for candidates to be awarded honorary doctoral degrees at the 2014 commencement exercises, both on the main campus in Morgantown and on the divisional campuses in Montgomery (West Virginia University Institute of Technology) and Keyser (Potomac State College of West Virginia University). […]

Grant to MIIR Will Support Commercialization of Technology to Repair Skin Injuries

The Chemical Alliance Zone’s Chemicals and Materials (CAM) Commercialization Fund has awarded $20,000 to a Marshall University scientist to help bring to market a technology he has developed for repairing skin injuries. The award to Dr. Jingwei Xie of the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR) will help Xie’s research team produce device prototypes and […]