West Virginia’s Creative Culture: Record Crowds Flock to West Virginia Makes Festival
By Jamie Cope For the past four years, the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) has celebrated National Manufacturing Day the first Friday in October by hosting the West Virginia Makes Festival. Each year the festival has experienced exponential growth. With 80 exhibitors and 2,000 people converging on Marshall University’s Memorial Student Center Plaza in Huntington, […]
HSTA: Making Good on a West Virginia Promise
By Bethany Hornbeck By West Virginians, for West Virginians. That is the claim of the Health Sciences and Technology Academy, known throughout the state as HSTA. HSTA lives up to that promise, as do the young professionals who have come out of the program over the last 20 years. By West Virginians HSTA is a […]
West Virginia’s Public Libraries: Essential to a Successful State
By Karen Goff West Virginia is home to more public libraries than Walmart stores and McDonalds combined. These libraries vary in size from 724 square feet to more than 66,000 square feet and in annual operating budgets from $27,000 to $8.1 million. They all have books, provide access points to cyberspace and preserve local history. […]
Creating the Cornerstone: Building a Brighter Future in Wayne County
By Cheryl King Devastation from the loss of jobs in the coal mining industry still hovers like a black cloud over the southern counties in West Virginia. Many are working hard to make a difference with new job opportunities. Park Ferguson is working tirelessly in Wayne County. Ferguson grew up on a farm in Wayne […]
Bonnie’s Bus: Making a Positive Impact in West Virginia
By Sherry Stoneking The new coach-style Bonnie’s Bus is making an impact as it travels across West Virginia, bringing a lifesaving service to women in the communities where they work and live. A service of WVU Medicine and the WVU Cancer Institute, the 45-foot, state-of-the-art mobile mammography vehicle offers 3-D mammography screenings and breast care […]
WVU School of Dentistry: Innovation in Oral Health
By Sunshine Wiles-Gidley The West Virginia University (WVU) School of Dentistry is joining forces with a philanthropic educational group to give the next generation of Mountaineers access to advanced dental equipment during their clinical instruction. The Center for Research and Education in Technology, or CRET, is a nonprofit consortium of academics and industry. The organization […]
