Journalism students Kayla Starcher and Maxwell Shavers produced stories as part of a podcasting class with teaching associate professor Emily Corio. Students transitioned to cover the impact of coronavirus on their hometowns for the final episode of High Street Beat, the class’s three-part, 20-minute collaborative show.
Colleges
Although research efforts at West Virginia University came to a halt in response to the coronavirus crisis, agriculture doesn’t stop in the face of a pandemic. And, neither have essential employees in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.
Potomac State College is pleased to announce it has enhanced its Equine Management major to be offered Fall 2020 through the Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship two-year Associate of Applied Science degree. Students will then have the option to pursue the SAGE four-year degree program.
COVID-19 canceled WVU Law’s commencement ceremony on May 15, but it did not cancel celebrating the Class of 2020. Instead of walking across the stage in the WVU Creative Arts Center’s Lyell B. Clay Concert Theater, each member of the Class of 2020 is being honored on the law school’s website.
100 Days in Appalachia, a media outlet incubated at the Reed College of Media’s Media Innovation Center, was the only newsroom in West Virginia selected for a grant from the Facebook Journalism Project to support local coverage of COVID-19.
The newest faculty member in the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences envisions expanding the foundation of the innovative Health and Well-being major. Emily Murphy will serve as associate professor with tenure, beginning Aug.14.