Morgantown-area high school students win highest honor at robotics competition—for community outreach. Local high school students of the Mountaineer Area RoboticS, or MARS, team stood together at the international FIRST Robotics Competition Championship in St. Louis, Missouri, in April 2017. Holding hands and shaking, the team was waiting to hear who won the Chairman’s Award. MARS had been declared one…
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This family-owned skin care and cosmetics shop offers authentic Korean products. Just steps away from the nightclubs, boutiques, and restaurants of the city’s downtown scene, Poppy & Daisy is a hidden gem on Fayette Street. The skin care and cosmetics shop sells authentic Korean products. Poppy & Daisy owner Qun Bond first became interested in Korean skin care while trying…
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WVU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute keeps the neurons firing and the fun going. Earlier this decade, Jim Held was a theater professor at WVU. He was also teaching classes to people over 50 at the university’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, as a volunteer. One day, he says, he realized he was having so much fun teaching seniors that he would…
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A spoken word tour dispels stereotypes and gives voice to Appalachian women. Kari Gunter-Seymour founded the Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak tour to help dispel negative stereotypes about mountain women. But she’s ended up doing something even better. “It has become more about building a sisterhood,” says Gunter-Seymour, an Albany, Ohio-based poet and photographer. The spoken word showcase—which will…
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Morgantown’s school of rock teaches music by playing the hits. The music lessons Chris Russell took growing up were pretty standard— just him and a teacher, alone in a room, working on theory and proper technique. He learned plenty, and stuck with the lessons up through his time as a student in WVU’s percussion program. But it wasn’t those private…
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