“Beyond the Headlines: Food Choices that are Right for You” is a panel discussion covering how consumers sift through available information to make the make best food choices for themselves at the WVU Media Innovation Center, Evansdale Crossing Thursday (Oct. 4), 3:30 – 5 p.m.
Ahead of the 2018 Manufacturing Day on October 5, West Virginia University’s LaunchLab Network and the WV Manufacturing Extension Partnership will host their inaugural Manufacturing Day Pitch Competition where participating students will showcase their physical products that can be manufactured. They will each present a five-minute pitch to a panel of judges, followed by another five-minute question and answer period.
Youths throughout West Virginia and the nation will have an opportunity to learn about computer science and coding through hands-on experience as part of the 2018 4-H and Google National Youth Science Day challenge. This year’s theme, “Code Your World,” was developed by West Virginia University Extension Service and Google, and includes a four-part challenge for kids ages 8-14 to apply computer science to the world around them.
Hear “Women Speak” on diverse Appalachian identities-- from gender and sexuality, to race and ethnicity, class and ability and religion and region at the Downtown Campus Library’s Milano Reading Room on October 6 from 1-3 p.m. The annual event, created by the Women of Appalachia Project and hosted by West Virginia University Libraries, invites residents of all 420 Appalachian counties to submit writing to be featured.
“Our highly recognized event is in its 25th year, and thousands of business and community leaders from across West Virginia have attended Economic Outlook Conferences hosted by WVU’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research,” said John Deskins, BBER director and WVU economist. “Our conferences provide detailed and reliable forecasts for the national and state economies, analyses of recent national and state trends, and discussion of economic issues of interest. Our standard of excellence for these events is higher than ever, as is our commitment to producing dependable economic forecasting and economic analysis.”
The events are part of the Healthy Living Fair series offered by West Virginia University. Healthcare practitioners and professional students from WVU schools of pharmacy, audiology, speech and language pathology, music therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy will be available at various stations to offer screenings and answer health-related questions.
Participants in the Raising Capital Workshop will learn about the legal options for funding their West Virginia-based business and how to meet regulatory requirements. They will also learn more about crowdfunding and free legal services and resources.
The West Virginia University Women’s Business Center will host entrepreneur, Matt Nelson, owner of @WeRateDogs, who will speak about his start-up success story.
PARK(ing) Day, an annual, global event that promotes the importance of urban green spaces by encouraging students, designers and community members to transform metered parking spaces into temporary small parks, or parklets.
A West Virginia University student and his international team are working to develop a new source of natural gas that would allow local production. By-products of the source materials—wheat straw, mushrooms and beans—could be used as fertilizer, making the product both environmentally friendly and sustainable. Hasan Ul Banna, an electrical engineering student, and his team won first place at the third annual Student Congress hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Power and Energy Society for their innovative idea.