The WVU Extension Service will break ground on the 6,000-square-foot Annette S. Boggs Educational Center at WVU Jackson’s Mill March 28 at 11:30 a.m. This education center will expand educational and outreach opportunities for children throughout West Virginia, including hands-on STEM activities and programming.
Representatives from all three WVU campuses—Morgantown, Beckley and Keyser—will host an Ask Us Anything event from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday (March 19) at the Marriott Town Center in Charleston.
West Virginia Timber Tax Workshop – a one-day conference March 19 from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. will cover the key information landowners and professionals need to know about timber sales and the associated taxes, including current tax incentive programs, in order to improve the quality of timber transactions from both a natural resources and economic standpoint.
West Virginia University President Gordon Gee will deliver a State of the University address at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown.
For medical students nationwide, Match Day is the culmination of four years of hard work. Many students consider it the most exciting day of the medical school experience – learning where they’ll complete their residency training. WVU medical students will learn their matches Friday (March 15). Envelope distribution begins at noon on all three WVU Medical School campuses.
Cadets will lower the U.S. and West Virginia state flags and “retire the colors” for the final time in front of Stansbury Hall during a brief and reserved ceremony Friday (March 8) at 1 p.m. in front of the historic brick building along Beechurst Avenue. The joint ROTC detail will pass the U.S. flag to Brig. Gen. Wilbur Wolf, a 1985 graduate of the program, to acknowledge the historical significance of the building and its two primary tenants for the past several generations. Wolf will turn the colors over to WVU President Gordon Gee for safeguard until they can be properly raised over the new ROTC offices on the Evansdale campus.
For many farmers across West Virginia, an abundance of wet weather in 2018 has created concern for a potential shortage of hay, which farmers will use to feed livestock through spring 2019. West Virginia University Extension Service Agriculture and Natural Resources Specialists Ed Rayburn and Kevin Shaffer have provided a few management options available to help concerned farmers stretch their resources and keep their herds healthy.
The West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities is joining forces with the Brain Injury Association of America and the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators to educate the public about the incidence of brain injury and the needs of people with brain injuries and their families during the month of March as National Brain Injury Awareness Month.
Graduate students at West Virginia University enrolled in a public advocacy course have spent the semester traveling between Morgantown and Charleston, half of them advocating for legislation that would increase access to medical marijuana and industrial and agricultural hemp, and the other half lobbying for the implementation of a state bank which would increase access to loans for small businesses and farmers.
A rare earthquake between Lewisburg and Beckley Monday (March 4) is only one of 25 that were larger than a magnitude 2.5 in the past 40 years, according to a West Virginia University expert. Because of its depth and location, Monday’s event is likely a natural occurrence unlike earthquakes of a similar magnitude in Braxton County in 2010-2011, said Jaime Toro, professor of geology in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.