West Virginia Residents are Thankful for the Opportunity to Help Their Community
This Thanksgiving, over 18 people across West Virginia participating in the Experience Works Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), are processing and shelving food donations, keeping track of inventory, filling emergency food box orders, and helping to cook and serve meals at more than 14 food banks, homeless shelters, and nutrition programs across the state. With thousands of requests from […]
Extras Stretch West Virginia State Park Gift Cards Use
It’s a tradition with many. Gift cards as gifts are everywhere. “There is good reason,” says Sissie Summers with West Virginia’s state parks. “Gift cards convey to the recipient that a person knows you or your family interests. The card becomes an experience when redeemed.” West Virginia State Parks gift card sales encourage recipients to visit a […]
Student works to be featured in Film Festival Nov. 28 at WVSU
Twenty short films will premiere at the 2012 West Virginia State University Student Film and Video Festival at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Davis Fine Arts Theater on the school’s Institute campus. The festival will feature works from both WVSU students and area high school students, according to Film Festival Coordinator Sam […]
Distance Learning Efforts Earn Honor for WJU Challenger Learning Center
The Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University has been honored for its many videoconference-based programs that are reaching students around the world. The Challenger Learning Center recently received a 2011-2012 Pinnacle Award from the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration. The award is presented annually to organizations delivering outstanding K-12, standards-based, interactive videoconferencing programs. […]
D&E Upward Bound Receives Federal Funding
The Davis & Elkins College Upward Bound programs are among fewer than 800 similar projects nationwide that have been selected to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education through two competitive TRiO grant proposals. The funding to D&E totals $3,227,565, and will continue over the next five years. The grant awards provide $395,513 annually […]
West Virginia Bird Feeder Alert
Backyard bird watchers need to be extra vigilant this year in maintaining their feeders, according to ornithologist Richard Bailey of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Section. “We’ve received widespread reports of large flocks of pine siskins, a North American migratory bird in the finch family, so we could be in for […]
