Fashion Impact Challenge: Fashion with a Purpose” teams current West Virginia University students with high school students from across West Virginia to research and create a profitable, durable and scalable fashion business model linked to a solution or long-term financial sustainability plan to address Appalachia’s most pressing challenges.
Intuit leader Brad Smith to give public lecture on education and entrepreneurship at WVU on March 5 at 5:30 p.m.
Author and global thought leader Dr. Jackson Katz will present “Sex, Violence and Silence: Why Ending Gender Violence is on All of Us” at the WVU Creative Arts Center on March 4, at 6 p.m.
The Center for Consumer Law and Education will present a free public workshop on student debt relief on March 4 at 6 p.m. in Marshall University’s Drinko Library.
In cooperation with The Daily Athenaeum and U92 The Moose radio, “Behind the Bowtie: A student conversation with President Gee” will be held Tuesday, March 3 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Gluck Theatre in the Mountainlair. A panel of students, moderated by DA Editor Douglas Soule, will ask Gee to discuss issues of importance to students.
The West Virginia University Reed College of Media has announced Point Pleasant, West Virginia, as the next partner for BrandJRNY, a project that aims to revitalize communities in the Mountain State through customized branding plans that promote tourism and economic development.
West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics and the WVU College of Law are holding a joint Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Kimberly A. Reed, president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the federal Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Tiffany Mitchell Patterson and Natasha Murray-Everett, West Virginia University professors who train and prepare future social studies educators at both the elementary and secondary levels, contend students are not exposed to diverse histories.
At a symposium on February 27 and 28, the West Virginia Law Review will explore home rule topics and challenges with a range of national experts.
Andrew W. Mellon Workshop series explains innovative digital storytelling techniques participants can use to better share knowledge of Appalachia with a national audience or in the classroom.