The John Chambers College of Business and Economics is offering services to small businesses feeling the strain of prolonged closures or limited offerings stemming from the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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As the COVID-19 global pandemic settles into the United States, people are relying even more heavily on news and the media for information. Faculty in the WVU Reed College of Media are not only using this unprecedented circumstance to teach important lessons in the classroom, but they are also sharing their expertise with the public.
Since transferring to WVU in fall 2017, Connecticut native Déja Fleury has found a home-away-from-home in Morgantown. Nearly three years later, the social work major is helping the local library feel more like home for its patrons. The senior teamed up with Milan Puskar Health Right, a free healthcare clinic for West Virginia residents who are low-income uninsured or underinsured, to offer social services at the downtown branch of the Morgantown Public Library.
Seniors Samuel Chico and Kyle Seese have an idea for low-cost, eco-friendly energy storage systems that repurpose retired EV battery modules from auto manufacturers. With a $10,000 boost from the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Chico and Seese, the winners of the first virtual West Virginia Business Plan Competition, may establish themselves and their business, Parthian Battery Solutions, as the premier cost leader for residential and commercial energy storage systems.
Tim Cronin, a West Virginia native, has come home to serve as the new Energy Fellow in the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at the College of Law.
West Virginia native singer-songwriter Bill Withers died March 30 in Los Angeles from complications related to heart disease.