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As a participant in the inaugural Pledge Your Allegiance for College Colors Day spirit competition, Marshall University is asking for fan support to help win the prestigious College Colors Day Spirit Cup and $10,000 toward the general scholarship fund. By visiting www.espn.com/collegecolorsday, fans can register to pledge their allegiance to Marshall as the school with…
The University of Charleston today announced that it is cooperating with Mountain State University as its primary partner in the teach-out of current MSU students and that the two colleges have agreed to negotiate a separate agreement under which UC could establish four-year private college centers in Beckley and Martinsburg by the end of the…
Students entering Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will be welcomed in a White Coat Ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on 5th Avenue in Huntington. Sixty-six students will receive white coats that symbolize their future profession and take a physician’s oath to…
Lumos Networks today announced its membership in the Equinix Ethernet Exchange allowing its customers to seamlessly connect to locations around the world. The announcement comes just weeks after Lumos Networks earned certification as a Carrier Class Metro Ethernet Service provider from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Equinix requires the same high standards as the MEF…
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, will be portrayed by Karen Vuranch of Fayetteville at the Beverly Heritage Center in Beverly, WV on Sunday August 12 at 2:00 p.m. The presentation is possible through the History Alive! program of the West Virginia Humanities Council. Barton, the first woman allowed to tend the wounded…
Like all good mysteries, it started with a discovery. Sisters Carey Flinn Howells and Jennifer Flinn Marks were exploring some custom-made bookcases in the library of an old home the Howells had just moved to in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Tucked in the dark recesses of a cabinet was a little leather-bound book. Numbering more than…