Yeager Symposium focuses on ‘Emerging Threats to National Security;’ Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett to speak on bioterrorism

Laurie Garrett, a nationally known, award-winning author, lecturer and political analyst, will speak on “Bioterrorism: The Modern Peril,” at Marshall University Monday, Nov. 5, at the 26th annual Yeager Symposium. Garrett, who has won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, the Peabody Broadcasting Award and the George C. Polk Award for Reporting, is senior fellow for…

West Virginia DEP contracts with MU Geography Department to employ student interns to convert paper mine maps to GIS format

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) has sub-contracted with Marshall University’s Geography Department to employ student interns to convert paper mine maps to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) database format. The contract for the GeoMine project is actually a renewal of a previous contract that lasted from December 2011 to September 2012. The current…

Free Legal Assistance Available for Storm Survivors

On October 2, 2012, a toll-free legal aid line was set-up to  take  calls from survivors of this summer’s derecho in designated West Virginia counties. These counties are Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Nicholas, Pendleton,…