Artificial Intelligence. Outdoor wellness. Minecraft to Mars. Courses in beginning German — and American Sign Language. This isn’t your granddad’s summer school. If you haven’t signed your kid up for “Summer Avalanche,” the summertime learning enrichment program ...
Audrey Simpson didn’t stop walking after she crossed the stage last spring to pick up her Class of 2022 diploma at Clay-Battelle High School. Her steps eventually took her that fall to Fairmont State University, to embark upon a mission that most of the Mountain State’s young college ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia's -- and the nation's -- clean energy future is being driven by a number of factors, said Nathan Flesher, partner in the energy analysis and research firm McKinsey and Company. The Morgantown native led off a series of experts addressing how West Virginia can ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia is poised to profit from a new energy future. The key is drawing, training and keeping the people to make it happen, a variety of experts said Wednesday during the fifth annual Focus Forward symposium, organized by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative ...
James Miltenberger was engaging in a little fib that day, but no one seemed to mind. His audience, in fact, loved every minute of it. The occasion was the 2017 Spring Commencement of WVU’s College of Creative Arts. With all those musicians, painters, potters and designers going forth to foster the arts in a society that needs the arts, it was already a heady afternoon. This one, however, may have even been more so. That’s because Bill Withers, the “Ain’t No Sunshine” soul-pop Everyman from Slab Fork, Raleigh County, who spun AM Radio gold in the 1970s, ...
Viraat Das may not have won the Monongalia County Spelling Bee on that sunny March afternoon more than a decade ago — but he was most definitely a fan favorite. Viraat leveled a lexicon of multisyllabic, and even obscure, words on his way to the final rounds. The elementary school ...
