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From left, West Virginia State University students Timothy Sanford, Ahmad Zaman, Zimren Dixon, Alexander Bailey, and Clark Wells recently participated in an innovative new pilot program designed by the U.S. Department of Energy to connect top students from minority-serving institutions with opportunities to commercialize DOE technologies.
From left, West Virginia State University students Timothy Sanford, Ahmad Zaman, Zimren Dixon, Alexander Bailey, and Clark Wells recently participated in an innovative new pilot program designed by the U.S. Department of Energy to connect top students from minority-serving institutions with opportunities to commercialize DOE technologies.
George Washington High School student Seboeda Bria was one of three students who were recognized at the Aug. 14 meeting of the West Virginia Board of Education for their work in the Mathematical Habits of Mind poster contest conducting during the last school year.
More than 200 students from West Virginia participated in the statewide poster contest, where they showcased their artistic talents to illustrate various mathematical concepts. The other students who were honored at the WVBOE meeting were Miranda Barger, of Monongalia County, and Avya Talwar, of Harrison County.
Putnam County Schools will conduct developmental screenings for children ages 2-1/2
to 4 Friday, Sept. 13, at Teays Valley Baptist Church, 3926 Teays Valley Road in Hurricane. Children will be screened for speech/language, hearing, vision, motor skills, social skills, self-help, and cognition.
To make an appointment for a screening or receive additional information, call 304-586-0500, ext. 1166.
The Nitro High School Choral Boosters will present Purse Bingo Night on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the school. Doors will open at 5 p.m. Games will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. A table for six can be reserved for $10; each player must have a ticket. The fundraiser will also have special games and a silent auction and concessions will be available to purchase.
Five West Virginia State University students spent their summer as part of an innovative new pilot program designed by the U.S. Department of Energy to connect top students from minority-serving institutions with opportunities to commercialize DOE technologies.
The program, MSI Connect, is designed to showcase how technology innovations created in the lab can be turned into products for the marketplace. Of the 24 students chosen to participate in the inaugural cohort of the program, the five from WVSU were Alexander Bailey, Zimren Dixon, Timothy Sanford, Clark Wells, and Ahmad Zaman. They were paired with students from other minority-serving institutions into teams of three for their work in the program.
Each team then worked through the summer to develop a commercialization plan for a new technology in an area such as nuclear energy, renewables (primarily wind energy) and fossil energy and carbon management, including work such as point-source carbon capture, methane emissions reduction, critical mineral production, and removal of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
Throughout the course of the summer, the teams collaborated closely with researchers, and lab technology transfer staff, to learn about lab innovations and think about how research fits in the marketplace. Then, the teams developed a commercialization plan to present at a pitch event hosted at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Aug. 16.
Of the eight teams making pitches at the event, two of the teams were selected to receive additional funding of $75,000 to continue into phase two of the MSI Connect project to continue the work to bring their product to market over the course of the next year.
The two teams selected to move onto phase two included Bailey and Zaman.
The University of Charleston Homecoming and Family Weekend is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 20, through Sunday, Sept. 22, on the UC campus.
The West Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship program is accepting applications this month for Mountain State students studying horticulture, landscape architecture and nursery and greenhouse management.
The deadline for applications to be submitted is Monday, Sept. 30.
WVNLA Executive Director Julie Robinson said students must be in-state residents who have completed half the required courses in ornamental horticulture or landscape architecture and maintained at least a 2.5 GPA.
Scholarship winners will be recognized at the association’s Winter Symposium in Charleston on Feb. 11.
University of Charleston students, faculty, coaches, and staff participated in the university’s annual Labor of Love initiative on Labor Day, Sept. 2.
A UC task force team organized nearly 40 community service projects, with a few activities taking place earlier in the weekend. This year’s projects included beautification projects, packing outreach and food bags, landscaping, trail cleaning, meal preparation, cleaning headstones at Spring Hill Cemetery, a “Get Out the Vote” initiative and more. The UC softball and women’s basketball teams are helped with the Charleston Distance Run and Children’s Race on Aug. 30 and Aug. 31.
The projects’ locations include CAMC Hospitality House, Elk City/West Side neighborhoods, Spring Hill Cemetery, the Morris Creek Watershed, Campbells Creek Park, Ruthlawn Elementary School, the Ronald McDonald House, YWCA, and Bream SHOP, as well as several other locations and beneficiaries of the day.
West Virginia American Water, WVLawyers.com, Poca Valley Bank, Centurion Insurance, Pray Construction, and Komax Business Systems were among the Labor of Love sponsors.
