Bianca Bosworth

Alderson Broaddus University will offer new bachelor’s degree programs in the Beckley, Fairmont, and Charleston areas this fall semester in conjunction with area community and technical colleges. Criminal Justice, Health Care Management, and Interdisciplinary Studies programs will be convenient to students in southern, northern, and western West Virginia, according to Dr. Jim Owston, assistant provost … Read more

It’s going to rain a lot in West Virginia, and it’s going to be really dry, too, according to researchers at West Virginia University. While torrential downpours and flash flooding don’t evoke images of drought or water insecurity, those polar opposites make sense in the erratic world of a warming climate, they say. Such instability … Read more

When fall classes resume at Shepherd University on August 26, some students will have a new, more cost-effective way to purchase their textbooks. Shepherd is partnering with Follett, which operates the campus bookstore, and with several publishers to offer IncludeED, which provides textbooks to students in a wide variety of classes in a way that … Read more

Concord University has been recognized as one of the “Most Affordable Online Colleges” in the nation by Study.com. Concord is ranked at 29 among the 50 institutions named in the 2019 rankings recently published by the online learning platform. The university located at Athens, West Virginia, is the only West Virginia college or university that … Read more

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—The West Virginia University Extension Service is boosting computer science education in rural communities across West Virginia through a partnership with Google and National 4-H. The two organizations recently announced a $6 million grant, which will help students across 20 states learn skills needed to approach problems in fundamentally different ways across discipline as … Read more

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—In what West Virginia University officials are haling as a remarkable move, the university this month is crowd-sourcing contributors everywhere and anywhere to find a new nationally running television commercial. The “2019 Find Your Purpose” contest is a worldwide search for the best-told WVU story,  according to Tony Dobies, a spokesperson for WVU University Relations. Mountaineer … Read more