Mountain State University News

Friday you can check out a new graduate program being offered at Mountain State University.

Raleigh General Hospital, who partnered again with Pasquale's for the 2009 Celebrity Night, raised the most money this year for United Way of Southern West Virginia and the Women's Resource Center.

The tab is in for the cost of having the Legislature in town for the extended session and first special session, May 26 to June 2. Total cost for $150 per-day pay and expenses is $380,418. Total House expenses were $279,497, although individual breakdowns of expenses were not available as of Friday.

Thumbs up ... to 22-year-old Ripley native Talia Markham, the new Miss West Virginia.

Conflicting schedules appear to have nixed a debate between NASA climate scientist Dr.

Beckley-based Mountain State University has one of the lowest graduation rates for first-time freshmen in the country, according to a national study.

Some high profile arrests are being reported by environmental activists in southern West Virginia.

NASA climate scientist James Hansen has agreed to debate global warming, the coal industry and mountaintop removal mining with Massey Energy President Don Blankenship later this week.

Thumbs up ... to Beth Perry, named 2008 Volunteer of the Year by the Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce.

Steven Browning came to the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center Wednesday in search of help in finding a new job.

Strayer University will be opening up a new campus in West Virginia. The grand opening will be this Wednesday at the new Scott Depot campus.

Two southern West Virginia higher education institutions are offering help to military members or veterans who want to obtain college degrees.

Members of Mountain State University's physician assistant class of 2011 present the Raleigh County Woman's Resource Center with a check for $4,265.75. Each year the physician assistant students hold a fundraiser and collectively choose the type and the beneficiary.

Target Red back for a second year It is not a ticket-writing campaign. It is a problem-solving success.

Nicholas Scott Cosgrove, son of Scott and Dawn Allison Cosgrove, graduated from Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Ill., with a 3.9451 GPA and is Senior Class President.

James Silosky, executive vice president of distance education at Mountain State University, serves Blenda and Angelia Wicker at Applebee's on Harper Road in Beckley during the 21st annual United Way Celebrity Night.

John S. Norton and Kim S. Norton, Bluefield W.Va., are announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Amanda Suzanne, formally of Chester W.Va., to Matthew L. Wright, son of the late Debra Wright, Newell, W.Va. The bride-elect attended Oak Glen High School and is currently attending Mountain State University to study ...

Award-winning research by a Marshall University doctoral student shows that from 1996 to 2005, West Virginia had the largest percentage of 'college-to-university' rebrandings of any state or U.S. territory.

"Reduce, reuse and recycle," groups of kids said in unison Friday at the School Recycling Awards.

Some Raleigh County high school students donned their caps and gowns, Saturday. The Academy at Mountain State University sent 23 of its own off into the world.