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If you own an Amazon Echo, you can now ask Alexa to read you news, sports, and more from The Daily Athenaeum. Each day, we release a list of our top stories as a flash briefing on your Alexa device.

Students presenting at the Business Plan Competition.  

After two phases of competition, 15 teams of college entrepreneurs have advanced to the finals of the 13th annual West Virginia Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition. The 15 finalists hail from five colleges and universities in West Virginia, as the teams try to capture a grand prize of $10,000 in each of three categories of competition hosted by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.

Brian Boone portrait.  

Dr. Brian Boone, surgical oncologist in the WVU Medicine Department of Surgery and WVU Cancer Institute, performed the state’s first hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy infusion. This treatment delivers heated, sterilized chemotherapy to the abdomen as a treatment for cancer that has spread to the lining of the abdominal cavity, or peritoneum.