Gov. Tomblin Presents Growing Healthy Community Grants

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today announced grant awards for eight projects totaling $77,800 for the Growing Healthy Communities Grant Program. “From the establishment of walking trails and community gardens to planning for a local, natural food store, the innovative projects awarded today focus on our communities’ health while encouraging downtown economic development,” Gov. Tomblin said. […]

Augusta Heritage Center Receives Grant to Preserve Rare Recordings

The Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College has been awarded a $1,500 matching grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council for the digital preservation of rare audio recordings. Work has already begun on the project currently housed in the Augusta Collection of Folk Culture on the second floor of Booth Library. “These recordings […]

WVWRI Celebrates World Water Day, Three Fork Creek Restoration Efforts

WHO: Representatives from the West Virginia Water Research Institute at West Virginia University; West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design; Save the Tygart Watershed Association; West Virginia Division of Natural Resources; and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Office of Abandoned Mine Land and Reclamation. WHAT: A small celebration will […]

Davis & Elkins College Affirms Leadership Continuity

In a move designed to sustain the momentum of its present positive direction, the Davis & Elkins College Board of Trustees named Chancellor Michael P. Mihalyo, Jr. as President, effective July 1, 2013. He succeeds G. T. ‘Buck’ Smith, who will voluntarily step down on June 30 after five years as President. He will continue […]

WVU Hosts Annual Bennett Careers for Chemists Program

Chemistry is more than just lab coats, beakers and solutions; study of the field can lead to a myriad of career choices and opportunities. The West Virginia University C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry will explore those opportunities on April 17 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. when it hosts the Nineteenth Annual C. Eugene […]