When most people think of the Virgin Islands they envision clear blue water, white sandy beaches, tropical weather and stunning views. Melisa Efe experienced the Virgin Islands from a different angle.
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The Deem Distinguished Lecture will be given Thursday (March 28) by Antionette Carroll, the founder, president and chief executive officer of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth leadership to challenge racial inequities affecting Black and Latinx populations.
WVU Tech will host the Expanding Your Horizons 2019 West Virginia Conference Saturday (March 30) in the Life Sciences Building (100 Mel Hancock Way).
Each year, the Office of Admissions coordinates representation at high school scholarship award ceremonies throughout the state of West Virginia. This endeavor reflects our land-grant mission and the efforts were incredibly successful last year. Volunteers attended nearly 100 ceremonies and recognized achievements of over 1000 future Mountaineers.
There are common threads that run through three John Chambers College of Business and Economics faculty members who have been named endowed chairs: a passion for research and using the knowledge generated from their research in the classroom. All three have also created unique, experiential learning opportunities for their students that take them outside the classroom and into the real world.
In the 2019 Seehra Lecture, "Commuter Marriage: Women Negotiating Work and Family," Karla Bergen, an associate professor at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, will discuss her research on the challenges of women who initiate commuter marriage, with spouses spending the workweek (and sometime weeks and months) apart Sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of Communication Studies, the lecture will be held Thursday (March 28) from 4 -5:30 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room in the Mountainlair.