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No Signal: Growing Up in Green Bank, West Virginia

November 9, 2019

I tend to speak about my origins as if I was from a foreign country, and not from rural West Virginia. I grew up in Green Bank, West Virginia, at the center of the federally mandated National Radio Quiet Zone (...

Alive and Well

Katie Quinnelly

October 1, 2019

Community, Education

— Beloved Shepherdstown book store continues to thrive under new ownership. If you're a regular customer at Four Seasons Books in (116 W. German St., Shepherdstown), you can probably recall a time you were l...

Debut Writers Conference Geared Towards Authors at Every Level

Mike Chalmers

July 4, 2019

Education, Writing

On Friday and Saturday, September 6-7, Shepherd University will host the first-of-its-kind “From Manuscript to Marketplace” writers conference, designed to deliver success strategies and insider advice for writ...

Whither Public Education

John Doyle

April 7, 2019

Education, Politics

This year’s regular session of the WV State Legislature saw a focus on public education that rivaled that of last year. The 2018 session saw a greater focus on education than had been the case for many years....

Barrat Leads Way in AI Research

H.S. Leigh Koonce

March 19, 2019

Education

Robbie Barrat’s revolutionary research relating to artificial intelligence (AI) has earned him numerous plaudits, an art exhibition in France, as well as a place in a new documentary about high school science f...

Shepherd University Announces First Poet-in-Residence

Independent Submission

February 25, 2019

Education

Dr. Hope Maxwell Snyder, poet laureate of Shepherdstown, has returned to Shepherd University as the school’s first poet-in-residence. Snyder, who taught in the Department of English and Modern Languages betw...

We Went Back to School and Asked: What’s for Lunch?

Claire Stuart

February 10, 2019

Education, Features

Ask random adults what school lunches were like when they were kids, and the answers can range from great to awful, depending on when and where they went to school. Schools are required to provide healthy lunch...

WV Air National Guard Expands Student-Mentor Relationships in the Panhandle

Angela F. Durkin

January 24, 2019

Drugs & Addiction, Education, Features

Students in the Eastern Panhandle have recently gained exposure to uniformed soldiers in the hallways of their schools. The men and women of the West Virginia Air National Guard (WVANG) 167th Airlift Wing, the ...

Shepherd, Marshall Sign Agreement to Provide Autism Services

Independent Submission

January 16, 2019

Education

Shepherd University and the West Virginia Autism Training Center (WV-ATC), located at Marshall University, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that establishes Shepherd as a WV-ATC campus-based sate...

Life Beyond the Classroom

Hans P. Fogle

December 12, 2018

Education

West Virginia University President Gordon Gee spoke with juniors and seniors at Jefferson and Washington High Schools last month. While extolling the benefits of an education at WVU, the overall message he deli...