Charleston Construction Company Named West Virginia’s Small Business of the Year
In January of 2005, Gene Brooks, Jr. and his wife, Frances Foster Brooks, began their entrepreneurial journey in a small trailer in Dunbar. Their business, named BrooAlexa, LLC, eventually evolved into a multi-faceted construction company that has been named by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the 2012 West Virginia Small Business of the Year. […]
SBA, AARP Team Up to Connect Older Americans with Resources to Start, Grow Businesses
The U.S. Small Business Administration and AARP are launching a strategic alliance to provide counseling and training to entrepreneurs over the age of 50 who want to start or grow a small business. Through SBA’s online training courses and its nationwide network of business mentors and counselors, the two organizations expect to train 100,000 “encore […]
Biochar Research Will Continue Under Hass at West Virginia State University
Research to explore the use of biochar as a soil amendment will continue now that Dr. Amir Hass has joined West Virginia State University as an assistant research professor. Biochar is a carbonaceous co-product from pyrolysis thermo-conversion of cellulosic biomass to a petroleum replacement product, such as bio-oil. The pyrolysis technology can also be used […]
StartUp West Virginia Manufacturing Program Announces First Class of Entrepreneur Awardees
Offering the tools and technical assistance to take an entrepreneur’s idea from concept to prototype with the goal of creating jobs for West Virginians, the StartUp West Virginia Manufacturing program announced its first class of seven awardees in March during an event at Marshall University’s Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) on […]
West Virginia State Police Digital Forensics Unit Turns 10
Digital Forensics is defined as the practice of using scientifically derived and proven technical methods and tools toward the preservation, collection, validation, identification, analysis, interpretation, documentation and presentation of after-the-fact digital information from digital sources for the purpose of facilitating or furthering the reconstruction of events as forensic evidence. The West Virginia State Police Digital […]
WV Artist-Blacksmith Named One of the World’s Seven Premier Metal Designers
WV Artist-Blacksmith Named One of the World’s Seven Premier Metal Designers by International Metal Design Annual Perched high atop a ridge in Roane County, WV, with a commanding view of the countryside, master artist-blacksmith Jeff Fetty feels like the king of the world, and he should. Fetty is one of only seven metal designers in […]