2013

CHARLESTON, W.Va.Learn to create sports-related digital content from your own website at the latest Creators Program workshop at West Virginia State University’s Economic Development Center (EDC) beginning Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

INSTITUTE, W.Va — West Virginia State University’s softball team is ranked
25th
in the country in the current National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll released this week.
It
is the first time the program has received a national ranking.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – A “Black and White Hollywood Murder Mystery
Dinner” will take place at West Virginia State University (WVSU) beginning at 8 p.m.
on Friday, April 12.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Noted nature photographer Lewis Kemper will share stories
from his acclaimed career at the annual West Virginia State University (WVSU) Media Summit
Thursday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Davis Hall Auditorium.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – More than 40 businesses and professional organizations are
scheduled to participate in a Career and Employment Expo on Thursday, April 11, at West
Virginia
State University (WVSU).

CHARLESTON – Dr. E. Gordon Gee, president of The Ohio State University, will
be
the keynote speaker at a Saturday, April 6, dinner gala designed to raise funds to support
student scholarships and programs at West Virginia State University (WVSU).

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Two West Virginia State University (WVSU) students will
be present papers at the Western Pennsylvania Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor
Society Conference this Friday and Saturday in Morgantown.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State University (WVSU) academic quiz
bowl
team will be leaving Saturday, April 6, to compete in the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge
National Championship Tournament in Los Angeles.

Residents of Charleston’s West Side may soon see new development thanks to a $5,000 award to West Side Main Street (WSMS) for future use of a vacant property located at
the intersection of Washington Street West and Greendale Drive.

Educating young people about gardening and sustainability is the focus of West Virginia
State University (WVSU) Extension Service’s free Junior Master Gardener (JMG)
training
session Wednesday, April 3, from 9 a.m. until noon at the WVSU Aerospace Education Laboratory
in
Institute.

CHARLESTON – The role of West Virginia State University (WVSU) in the
training
of the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II will be discussed Tuesday, April 2, in the
Archives
and History Library of the Culture Center in Charleston.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State University (WVSU) graduate Rick Kelly
recently directed an episode of the hit comedy television show “Raising
Hope.”

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Students at West Virginia State University (WVSU) brought
home top honors from the National Broadcasting Society – Alpha Epsilon Rho when they
received the National Chapter of the Year award at the society’s annual meeting on
Saturday, March 23, in Washington, D.C.

Kids can blast off to a career in space exploration at West Virginia State
University’s (WVSU) Family Fun Day Saturday, March 23, from 10 a.m. until noon.

A presentation on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled for Thursday, April 4, at 2 p.m. at the West Virginia State University (WVSU) Wilson Student Union. The event will commemorate the life of King on the 45 anniversary of his death.