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More than 50 vendors, including Headline Books of Terra Alta, registered for the annual Gift Buyers Marketplace Feb. 4-6 at Pipestem Resort State Park. This trade show for gift and souvenir buyers is an annual event that brings together buyers from attractions, state parks and retail shops looking for new souvenir, novelty items, and gift-type items…
Beginning this summer, Marshall University will streamline its academic college structure in a move expected to create additional opportunities for students while also reducing administrative personnel costs. On July 1, the Graduate School of Education and Professional Development and existing College of Education units will combine programs to become a new comprehensive College of Education.…
Officials at West Virginia University Hospitals-East, in conjunction with the Martinsburg Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Cancer & Infusion Center, a department of City Hospital. The $1.3 million center, which opened to patients earlier this month, is located on the second floor of the Dorothy A. McCormack…
Most students at West Virginia University spent their 2012 winter break catching up with family and friends back home. However, seven members of Engineers Without Borders traveled to Fiji with one goal in mind: install seven slow sand filters that would greatly improve the quality of water in the remote village of Nakavika. Nakavika is…
Researchers at West Virginia’s primarily undergraduate colleges and universities have the opportunity to create partnerships with private businesses to convert innovations into products through a new grant program offered by TechConnectWV. The Seed Grant Program for Research and Commercial Partnering offers matching grants of up to $5,000 to faculty members who partner with the private…
The four children of a United States Marine Corps veteran who died late last year while a student at Marshall University received the diploma representing the degree he was pursuing at MU during a ceremony Friday, Feb. 1, in the Memorial Student Center’s Shawkey Room on the Huntington campus. The degree will be conferred posthumously.…