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Zipping through trees on steel cables at 25-30 miles per hour sounds like an activity geared more to thrill-seekers than academicians. But in creating a zipline canopy tour, West Virginia University (WVU) has built a facility that’s both thought-provoking and adrenaline-inducing. The tour, a network of four ziplines connected to trees at WVU’s Adventure WV course in the WVU Research Forest,…
Ronald “Trey” Lockhart, a student at Concord University, has been selected to participate in the inaugural “GEAR UP Alumni Leadership Academy,” (Academy) a 12-month national leadership program providing students across the country with intensive training in civic engagement and community development. A native of McDowell County, Lockhart was selected from a nationwide pool of applicants…
The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) has announced that Charles Woody, a member in its Charleston, WV, office, will be serving as adjunct professor at Charleston School of Law in Charleston, SC. He will teach employment law during the 2013 “maymester,” a month-long semester in May during which intense, unique courses are…
Donna Breault, a professor in West Virginia University’s College of Education and Human Services (WVU), won an award from the American Educational Research Association for her latest book, “The Red Light in the Ivory Tower.” Breault, along with co-author and former WVU professor David M. Callejo Parez, received the Society of Professors of Education Award at the organization’s…
Faculty members in Marshall University’s Graduate School of Education and Professional Development have received five grants totaling $409,447 to support professional development for teachers. The grants were received through the Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program (Title II). The initiative is part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which emphasizes teacher quality…
West Virginia University (WVU) research promoting fuel for our engines and bodies is being advanced thanks to a pair of mini-grants provided by the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission’s Division of Science and Research. The mini-grants provide replacement salary for an uninterrupted period of time, during which a faculty member can write research or research…