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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.

With information at our finger tips, it’s sometimes hard to tell what’s real and what is fake news. West Virginia University’s libraries offers a variety of courses to students on how to do research and to look critically at how entertainment and news are delivered through traditional and social media.

A passion for growing pumpkins, an ethic opposed to waste and a sense of originality and fun have inspired West Virginia University horticulture student Dustin Trychta to organize a Pumpkin Regatta. Just what it sounds like, four giant, hollowed pumpkins will be used as boats in a relay races along the Monongahela River Sunday (Oct. 22) beginning at 11 a.m. Participating teams include the WVU Horticulture Club, Men’s Rowing Club, WVU student veterans and teachers from North Elementary School. The event is free and open to the public.

A West Virginia University expert says that eliminating the Clean Power Plan will have little effect on bringing back coal jobs because market forces, not regulations have undermined the coal industry’s future. To tell coal miners otherwise is “cruel,” according to WVU law professor James Van Nostrand, who accused EPA administrator Scott Pruitt of engaging in “demagoguery at its worst” and “playing on the hopes and fortunes” of people in coal dependent states who deserve better from their leaders.