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 […]
SBA Deputy Administrator Visits WVHTC Foundation Incubator
Marie C. Johns, Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), visited the West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation incubator—a key component of the WVHTC Foundation’s continued efforts to create an atmosphere where small businesses can grow and prosper. The incubator was created in 1995 with seed money from the SBA and housed […]
Team from WVU Again Selected for NASA’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program
For the twelfth time in 13 years, a team from West Virginia University will be participating in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program, scheduled for July 12-20, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The team is made up of students from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. It is one of […]