Assistant professor’s presentation detailing her research expected to boost world-wide collaboration for MU community

Dr. Monika Sawhney, an assistant professor with the Marshall University College of Health Professions, will give a presentation on her research of health care economics, titled “The performance of India’s health care system: Evidence from a stochastic frontier analysis.” Sawhney will give her presentation at the ninth International Health Economics Association (iHEA) World Congress from…

Blood Splatter, Zip Lining and Cycling, Oh My! WVU Camping Out at Scout Jamboree

Scouting has come a long way from taking hikes and tying knots. Blood splatter and zip lining? You betcha’. West Virginia University will be offering these interactive forensic and outdoor activities to the 32,000 or so scouts swarming in from all corners of the country for the 2013 National Scout Jamboree in Mount Hope. The…

Charleston Resident Receives Prestigious International Engineering Award

Theodore Streit, Sr. Vice President for Gaddy EngineeringCompany has been advised by the board of directors and the worldwide membership of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International that he is the 2013 recipient of the Robert Earll McConnell Award. Streit is the 20th person to win the award from the petroleum industry. The Robert Earll…

Concord Division of Business Hosts Training Event for High School Teachers

Concord University’s Division of Business hosted a professional development seminar June 15-16. The seminar was intended to help regional high school business teachers in West Virginia better prepare their students to participate in newly developed high school level statewide business plan competitions. The Entrepreneurship Teachers’ Training was held in the Rahall Technology Center. Interim Vice…

Local Students Find Path to College at Unique College Summit Workshop

More than 130 high school seniors from Raleigh, McDowell, Putnam, Webster, Wyoming, Greenbrier and Mingo Counties will converge on the campus of WVU Tech in Montgomery for an intensive four-day workshop that promises to impact their futures and the futures of their peers. The training program runs from Thursday, June 27 through Sunday, June 30…

SBA Honors Outstanding Disaster Recovery Efforts

A Joplin, Mo. chamber of commerce leader who guided the economic recovery of the city in the aftermath of a devastating tornado, a Missouri trio whose gymnastics facility was destroyed before they had a chance to open and a Louisiana parish president who calmly managed the evacuation and rebuilding of the community following Hurricane Isaac…