WVUH-East Officially Opens Cancer & Infusion Center
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 […]
WVU Engineering Students Build Slow Sand Filters for Villagers in Fiji
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 […]
TechConnectWV Offers Commercialization Grants to Research Faculty
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 […]
Children of Deceased Marine Veteran who was Marshall Student Receive his Degree
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. […]
First Cohort of Students Completes WVU Parkersburg’s Learn and Earn Program
The first cohort of students in West Virginia University at Parkersburg’s Learn and Earn program has completed the second round of on-the-job experience at DuPont Washington Works and will complete the program next month. The partnership proved so successful that the American Association of Community and Technical Colleges asked DuPont and WVU Parkersburg to present […]
Former Skinhead Delivers Message of Tolerance at WVSU Human Rights Lecture
A former neo-Nazi skinhead who now renounces racism and preaches a message of tolerance delivered the eighth annual West Virginia State University (WVSU) Human Rights Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 7. Tom “TJ” Leyden spent 15 years in the skinhead movement promoting hate and bigotry before changing his ways when his 3-year-old son began using racial […]
