Steps are being taken by West Virginia University to build a facility for its 330-member Pride of West Virginia marching band on its Evansdale campus on the site of Hawley Field, the former home of WVU Baseball. The marching band, which has been in existence for more than 100 years, ...
A first of its kind clinical trial was completed last week at West Virginia University when a small device was successfully implanted in the brain of a 33-year-old man who has struggled with opioid and benzodiazepine abuse for more than a decade with multiple overdoses and relapses. This is the first time in the U.S. that brain stimulation — DBS — has been used to help a person fight opioid addiction, WVU officials said. The procedure, performed by neurosurgeon Ali Rezai, executive chair of Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, involved implanting a Medtronic DBS device in the ...
It might be hard to believe, but Christmas is rapidly approaching, and the Salvation Army is getting ready for a busy holiday season. Nicole Greenland and her husband Sheldon are Lieutenants for the Salvation Army out of Monongalia, Marion and Preston counties. Saturday, they started the ...
West Virginia University may forever be steeped in the gold and blue, but its Board of Governors learned Friday at its regular meeting the university is in the black. Paula Congelio, WVU’s Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, said revenue for fiscal 2019 decreased by almost 1%, but that loss was offset by increases in non-capital grants, revenue from contracts, other operating revenue and state appropriations. Items that had an impact on fiscal 2019 revenue include a $10 million signing bonus from Sodexo, which took over student dining services. The university ...
A man who threatened to shoot up West Virginia University was sentenced to prison this week. Clarence Steve Wright, 51, was sentenced to serve one to three years in prison, by Chief Circuit Judge Susan Tucker, according to the Monongalia County Circuit Clerk’s office. Wright pleaded guilty ...
West Virginia’s co-tenancy law is working, but there are still kinks to be worked out with the fledgling law, attendees of the fall meeting of the West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association learned Thursday. Co-tenancy, which passed last year and became law in July 2018, is designed to advance the state’s natural gas industry. It requires 75% of land owners to approve gas drilling on site. Perhaps more importantly, however, it gives non-consenting owners a pro-rata share of lease bonuses and royalties on a working natural gas well. Besides advancing the state’s natural ...
