Nearly 200 Marshall University supporters, including members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation, joined Marshall’s president, athletic director and football and basketball coaches at the nation’s capital June 21 to celebrate the University’s recent growth and expansion projects now under way.

The crowd, which included many Big Green members, gathered during Marshall’s annual State of the University address and reception at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.  The Newseum is an interactive museum of news located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.

West Virginia University will again pay tribute to the contribution of coal miners in our state with a Miner's Day Program to be held on Monday, December 6^th at 7:00pm in the Mountainlair Gold Ballroom.

The program will feature Mr. Fred Powers, a retired miner/school teacher, who will share personal stories of the coalfields in a theatrical context.  The program, titled "Under These Hills:  A Coal Miner's Story", will take you miles underneath our world into the hidden realm of the coal miner.  For this program, Powers was selected as the recipient of the Coal Heritage Award for Excellence in the Arts presented by the Coal Heritage Highway Authority and National Coal Heritage Area to honor local efforts to preserve and interpret our coal history throughout the National Coal Heritage Area and along the Coal Heritage Trail.

East Hartford, CT (November 15, 2010) – RSL Fiber Systems, LLC, an East Hartford, Conn.-based developer of advanced lighting solutions and integrated illumination systems, is moving aggressively to expand beyond its military roots into a wide variety of high-demand commercial lighting applications. And one of its first official steps into this arena is establishment of a new business development initiative designed to introduce the company’s revolutionary technology to commercial markets.