Patrick McGinley and Suzanne Weise represented pro bono the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail and its parent company, HD Media, in a year-long federal court legal battle to force the public release of government information identifying the volume of prescription opioid pills that flooded the United States and fueled a national health crisis.
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John Deskins, director of the Bureau of Business & Economic Research in the Chambers College of Business and Economics, will testify at 10 a.m. tomorrow (July 25) on Capitol Hill before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources on the importance of energy innovation to economic growth and competitiveness.
West Virginia Public Defender Services presented WVIP with the John A. “Jack” Rogers Award for Outstanding Leadership in Public Service for its work on behalf of the state’s wrongfully convicted. WVIP is a law clinic at the College of Law.
The West Virginia Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Statler College's Department of Industrial Extension will present a half-day workshop on cybersecurity Aug. 6 in Beckley.
James Long, the new head coach of the men's basketball program at WVU Tech, will be welcomed by the campus community today (July 22) at 10 a.m. The event will take place in the WVU Tech Learning Commons, located on the second floor of the Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center at 512 South Kanawha Street. Coach Huggins and members of the WVU men’s basketball team will be on site to welcome Coach Long.
Enjoy hands-on science at the Community Physics Festival, a free public event for all ages, Saturday (July 20) from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. in White Hall. The festival is sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology and the Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Organization.