John F. McCuskey
The campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the fall. (Photo Provided)
CHARLESTON West Virginia Wesleyan College received the largest one-time gift in its 130-year history for a new program aimed at students pursuing careers in science.
John F. McCuskey, an attorney and former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, donated $1.5 million to West Virginia Wesleyan, a private liberal arts college in Buckhannon, to create the McCuskey Family Fellowship Program.
McCuskey, who earned a bachelor’s in mathematics and a minor in physics from Wesleyan in 1969 before earning a bachelor’s in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and graduating from the West Virginia University College of Law, said he wanted to give back to his alma mater and help create the next generation of researchers.
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Chief Ethics Officer, David Reisman
David Reisman oversees the Texas Health and Human Services system s Ethics Office, providing training, advice and guidance to employees across HHS.
Reisman joined HHS in 2015 after serving at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute where he started an ethics and compliance program and served for nine years as executive director of the Texas Ethics Commission. At the TEC, Reisman oversaw the enforcement of the state s campaign finance, lobby and ethics laws. He also served as a special assistant to the general counsel of the United States Army from 2002 to 2004, where he helped manage the Army s ethics program.
Apr 9, 2021
ELKINS April is National Poetry Month, and The Arts Center will celebrate this year by offering the public free, online readings by local poets Dr. Bill King and Doug Van Gundy.
These readings will be available on The Arts Center’s Facebook page and web site throughout the month of April. Each poet will read approximately 15 minutes of their original work.
“The Arts Center wanted to once again celebrate National Poetry Month, and we hit onto the idea of doing virtual readings so that everyone can enjoy these poets,” said Arts Center Executive Director, Kurt Barkley. “As we slowly begin to emerge from our COVID cocoons, it’s still important to be safe, and these virtual readings give everyone the chance to experience these very fine poets read their work.”
A look at a Black teaching artist residency s inaugural musicians
It’s a kind of open secret: Very few artists make a living solely from their creative work. The vast majority of painters, poets, dancers, and actors hold down day jobs. The same goes for most musicians – and perhaps especially Black composers and musicians, who often lack the institutional support given to their white peers.
Kendra Ross, of ACT3 Consulting, co-created the residency program.
Credit Denele D. Biggs
That s the problem the Black Teaching Artist-in-Residence Program hopes to address. In February, this initiative of the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit UniSound – a collaborative of some three dozen area organizations that helps kids create music – welcomed its inaugural class of two artists.
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