MORGANTOWN — WVU's faculty senators got an update Monday on the presidential search after returning to campus for their first meeting of the fall semester. The focus was on the listening sessions that have been happening since July — and wrap up this week — and the online survey, ...
The West Virginia Public Education Collaborative, housed at West Virginia University, is taking steps to improve young learners’ reading, writing and oral language skills by investing more than $260,000 in six new statewide literacy projects. Reading proficiency by the end of the third grade is a key milestone in every child’s learning journey. But there is a growing disparity among early learners. In the 2023-24 statewide English language arts assessment scores, 47% of West Virginia third graders scored at the reading proficiency level. The WVPEC’s ...
MORGANTOWN – Morgantown native, TV host and soon-to-be space traveler Emily Calandrelli came to WVU Medicine Children's Tuesday to share her dreams, and her book, “Reach for the Stars.” “It just means so much to me to come back to my home state, my hometown, and try to connect with ...
Better living through STEM? Samsung Electronics America hopes so. That’s because the corporation's Solve for Tomorrow contest has again clicked over for 2024. Samsung launched the competition in 2010 as a way to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in society, using the ...
OK, we say: Stay home. And you say: Mountaineers. Stay home. Mountaineers. Call the above a new version of the legendary hometown football cheer, amended, for the moment, in response to a huge season-opener Saturday. However, it only works if you happen to be a Mountaineer — ...
Monongalia County Schools is canceling classes Friday in anticipation of the traffic crush in Morgantown for Saturday’s WVU-Penn State match-up at Milan Puskar Stadium. “We’ve been talking with MECCA and other authorities,” Deputy Schools Superintendent Donna Talerico said ...
