Facemire-Roll Scholarship to Benefit Accounting and Finance Students at WVU

Rob and Penni Roll, both of whom earned undergraduate accounting degrees from West Virginia University, have established the Facemire-Roll Scholarship through a gift of $105,000 to the College of Business and Economics. The endowment will provide scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students in accounting and finance. “This gift is fantastic because it really fills an…

Local SBA Employee Creates National Resource

The U.S. Small Business Administration has recognized West Virginia’s District Deputy Director, Karen Friel, for a best practice improvement that has been selected for use in all of SBA’s District Offices nationwide. Friel saw a need for a document encompassing the necessary facts, statistics, contacts and news for the District Office in one place. This…

Another Successful “Chips for Charity” Event

Mardi Gras Casino & Resort officials are pleased to announce the winner of the fourth “Chips for Charity” Poker Tournament: the American Red Cross and its player Charles Roskovensky. “We were proud to present Charles and the Red Cross a check for $5,000 at last night’s tournament,” said General Manager Bob Lagg. “This was, by…

Lumos Networks Continues Transformation with Appointment of Joti Balani as Vice President of Marketing

Lumos Networks Corp., a leading provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure & IP Services in key mid-Atlantic markets, announced the appointment of Joti Balani as Vice President of Marketing. This appointment comes on the heels of the ongoing transformation Lumos Networks embarked upon since its inception in Nov 2011 when it spun off from nTelos. In…

Healthy Living 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 healthy living. The seminar, titled Obesity Crisis in America, will be held on Tuesday, March 12 in the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center on the City Hospital campus.  The presentation,…

WVSU Hosts On-the-Spot Decision Day for Applicants Saturday

Immediate admission decisions will be available to students interested in attending West Virginia State University (WVSU) in the fall of 2013 during On-the-Spot Decision Day, Saturday, Feb. 23. Designed for both first-time freshman and transfer students, the event will begin at 11 a.m. in the Wilson University Union and will feature presentations on admissions and…