SBA and Experian Launch Online Cash Flow Management Tool for Small Disadvantaged and Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Zone Firms

The U.S. Small Business Administration has joined forces with Experian, the leading global information services provider, to launch BusinessIQ ExpressSM, an online cash flow management tool, for small disadvantaged firms in SBA’s 8(a) Business Development program and firms certified in SBA’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Zone program. SBA and Experian’s Business Information Services will host…

WVU PR Students Gaining Unique Insight into Global Healthcare through Hands-on Capstone Course

Next week, a group West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism students will travel to Italy to meet with their international client and present their work as public relations practitioners. Led by senior lecturer Chuck Harman, the students formed their own agency, American Activist Agency, and have spent the spring semester communicating with and…

Cancer Services Topic of Community Seminar

West Virginia University Hospitals-East and the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Eastern Division will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on cancer care in the Eastern Panhandle. The seminar will be held on Tuesday, April 16 in the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center on the City Hospital campus.  The guest speaker…

West Liberty University College of Education Selected to Join International Delegation Study Abroad Program

West Liberty University’s College of Education is participating in an international delegation study abroad program hosted in Reggio Emilia, Italy – acclaimed for exceptional early childhood education. Assistant Professor of Education Dr. Miriam Roth-Douglas is representing WLU in the delegation. “We are honored to have the prestigious opportunity to participate in an international delegation with…

ESGR Announces West Virginia’s Nominations for 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense operational committee, announced 13 West Virginia Guard and Reserve members nominated their employers for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The agency received 2,899 nominations nationwide. The Freedom Award is the Department of Defense’s highest recognition for employers supporting employees…

Commitment to Service Helps WVU 4-H-ers Earn National 4-H Club of the Year Honor

The West Virginia University Collegiate 4-H Club was named national club of the year on Saturday, March 16, at the 2013 National Collegiate 4-H Conference in Columbia, Mo. The Club’s service projects helped reach nearly 57,000 people through educational, youth-development and heritage-based events. Club President Alec James, a junior exercise physiology major from New Manchester,…