Claudia Flores-Saviaga, a doctoral candidate at West Virginia University, has won a 2019 Facebook Emerging Scholar Fellowship. The highly competitive fellowship is given to outstanding Ph.D. students from across the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today announced her committee assignments for the 116th Congress. She will continue serving on four U.S. Senate committees—including the Committee on Appropriations;…
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Warner (D-VA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Doug Jones (D-AL) and Bob Casey (D-PA) today introduced the American Miners Act of…
Stockert Youth & Community Center director Debora Brockleman received some good news recently: the Weyerhaeuser foundation awarded the center $10,000, which will go toward building a new multipurpose space. With…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Alliance for a Healthier Generation (Healthier Generation), one of the nation’s preeminent children’s health organizations, named prominent health care executive and philanthropic leader Kathy Higgins to serve…
Cardiovascular disease pervades Appalachia, yet many Appalachians live far from any heart and vascular specialist. Follow-up doctor’s visits in the weeks after cardiovascular surgery can involve hours-long drives down narrow,…
Fairmont State University Junior and Vice President of the Fairmont State Student Government Association Tyler Keller has been chosen as a Judith Herndon Fellow for the upcoming legislative session. This is among…
CAIRO, W.Va. — What do monarchs, migration and Mexico have in common? The answer involves monarch butterflies and pollinators, and that’s the theme of North Bend State Park’s annual Winter…
West Virginia University football redshirt junior linebacker David Long Jr. has announced he is forgoing his senior season with the Mountaineers and will enter the 2019 NFL Draft. “First off,…
West Virginia University continues to rank among the nation’s elite research institutions as reflected in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Carnegie released its every-three-year assessment this week,…
