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William Loope, vice president of institutional advancement and workforce education at New River Community and Technical College, will be presented the Campus Impact Award for Outstanding Grants Professional at the national conference of the Council for Resource Development (CRD) in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Nov. 10. The Council for Resource Development is the professional organization…
The first cohort of students in West Virginia University at Parkersburg’s Learn and Earn program has completed the initial rounds of classroom and on-the-job experience at DuPont Washington Works and is on par to complete the program in February 2013. The college and DuPont announced the collaboration in January, and students began the following month.…
Marshall University and St. Joseph Catholic Grade School are teaming with the United States Marine Corp Reserves in supporting a drive to collect toys for needy children in the 2012 Toys for Tots regional campaign. This afternoon at St. Joe, about 80 students in grades K-2 joined Sgt. Victor Arroyo, coordinator of the campaign, and…
Marshall University’s free cyber safety summit, originally scheduled for Oct. 30 but postponed because of weather conditions that day, has been rescheduled to Nov. 28 beginning at 10 a.m., according to John Sammons, assistant professor of Integrated Science and Technology and director of the Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence. The summit will take place in the…
Officials from the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center Eastern Division, and WVU Hospitals East hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony today for Jefferson County’s newest urgent care. WVU Urgent Care opened in the WVU Medical Office Building, across from Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Ranson, on October 15. The clinic is…
Due to inclement weather that hit the state this week, the class AAA and AA-A state high school soccer tournaments will take place in Charleston, W.Va. next week. The events, originally slotted for Nov. 2-3 in Beckley, will now take place Nov. 6-7 at Schoenbaum Soccer Stadium in Coonskin Park and the Trace Fork Soccer Complex along Corridor G.…