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Using West Virginia Forward as a lens, policy experts, corporate leaders and educational practitioners will discuss the state’s economic opportunities and challenges and the need to nurture the talent pipeline through the diversification of workforce development. The second annual West Virginia Legislators’ Forum on Education and the Economy will be held in Charleston, with an aim to engage legislators on how best to address the current landscape of public education in West Virginia. The Nov. 2 conference is hosted by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative and sponsored by West Virginia University, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and numerous community partners.

John Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco Systems and a two-time graduate of West Virginia University, will present “The New Digital Era and the Implications for Education” as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas series Friday (Oct. 27) at 11 a.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

Fats Domino rose to international fame, not through showmanship or flashy piano solos, but through vocal interpretations that revealed the emotional complexity of well-known songs, according to a West Virginia University expert.

With Halloween just around the corner, members of the West Virginia University Collegiate Horsemen’s Association are organizing a spooktacular new community event.

West Virginia University’s LaunchLab Network will host its first-ever Women’s Pitch Competition to encourage female students to compete for cash prizes by showcasing their innovative ideas or business models in a tightly-timed presentation to a panel of judges. The prizes will help further fund product development and business ventures. The event will be sponsored by the WVU's Women's Leadership Council.

Daniel McTaggart isn’t your typical WVU Facilities Management employee. During the day, McTaggart can be found writing poetry that earned him the status of West Virginia's first Beat Poet Laureate.

Open Enrollment for health plans on the ACA Marketplaces is shorter than it has been in previous years, six weeks from Nov. 1-Dec. 15. Free in-person enrollment help is available from four certified Navigators with the West Virginia Healthy Start Navigator Project at West Virginia University.

WVU's Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will host 370 elementary, middle and high school teams from across the state and region for the 30th annual Pumpkin Drop. The competition aims to teach engineering concepts by designing an enclosure with the ability to protect pumpkins from damage when dropped from the roof of a building.

Michael Thaman will present “Owens Corning: Building a Sustainable Enterprise” at the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources Hiner Lecture. Thaman was named a member of the Board of Directors at Owens Corning, a world leader in insulation, roofing and fiberglass composites, in January 2002 and elected chairman later that year.

Oxford University law professor Hugh Collins will deliver this fall’s C. Edwin Baker Lecture for Liberty, Equality and Democracy, “Private Law, Fundamental Rights, and the Rule of Law,” at the West Virginia University College of Law. The Baker Lecture at WVU Law is presented annually in honor of C. Edwin Baker, a leading constitutional law scholar who died in 2009.