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WVU Libraries to host online Pearl Buck symposium

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University Libraries and the WVU President’s Office will co-host the 2021 Pearl S. Buck International Symposium from Nov. 4-5. The online event is titled “Wisdoms of Pearl: Examining the Life and Legacy of Pearl S. Buck.” Jay Cole, senior adviser to WVU ...

Robotics designated as school activity in W.Va.

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  Beginning today, students  across the state can select robotics as a recognized co-curricular activity by the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission. Students in high schools involved in the WVSSAC are now able to participate in ...

Preston County Schools up from last year, down over five years

KINGWOOD — Enrollment in Preston County Schools is up compared to last year but the system has lost essentially an entire grade level worth of students over the past five years. Assistant Superintendent Brad Martin briefed the Preston County Board of Education on the 2nd Month ...

‘If you ever want to really learn something, go out and teach it’

In Morgantown, where just as many townie kids stay as their classmates who move on, it’s not uncommon to encounter an old teacher from high school in the checkout lane — so you can tell him you didn’t learn a thing in his class. Michael Roh, who teaches physics at University High, had just such an interaction recently. How did the teacher who was just recognized with a Yale Educator Award — yes, that Yale — respond? We’ll get to that Yale award, which is significant, since another student nominated him. But that wasn’t that student. It was this one. After ...

Mon Commission funds swimming program for county’s youth

MORGANTOWN — In 2012, the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park was far from a certainty. It wasn’t a plan or a concept. It was a wish list item. But even then – some five years before the first shovel of dirt was turned — Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom was selling the project ...