News for WVU Potomac State College

West Virginia University Potomac State College recently won first place at the 2nd Annual Demo Day Expo. The event was sponsored by the WVU IdeaHub on the Morgantown campus and featured innovative ideas, new inventions, unique prototypes and business ventures from various colleges and departments throughout the WVU system with an entrepreneurial focus on moving West Virginia forward. Potomac State College featured its SAGE (Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship) program’s new business venture -- Pure Maple Syrup Production. The team featured the process from tapping the College’s trees, cooking sap, and bottling syrup to selling their product, as well as making maple candy from 3D printed candy molds. The team was awarded $1000 to be used toward the business venture. Pictured from left are: WVU Provost Joyce McConnell presenting the award; SAGE Student Kyle Cessna; SAGE Director Corey Armstrong, SAGE Student Kyle Creamer, Multi-Media Specialist David Miller, SAGE Students Dylan Mapp and Hannah Dickson and Business Instructor Amy Weaver, and Psychology Instructor Keri Whitacre. Not pictured, Work Study Student Noah Cline who was instrumental in helping with the mold making process for the candy. 

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Get a jump on your college career by taking classes at West Virginia University Potomac State College this summer.  The College will offer classes in various subjects and time slots in order to fit schedules and better accommodate students. 

The summer term includes: a full 12-week session running from May 13 to August 2; a nine-week session running from May 13 to July 12; a six-week session running from May 13 to June 21; a second nine-week session running from June 3 to August 2; and a second six-week session running from June 24 to August 2.

West Virginia University Potomac State College’s Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship Program (SAGE) invites the community to their Sugar Shack Open House, Sunday, April 28, at 1 p.m. The Sugar Shack is located across from the Gustafson Farm, 471 Parkview Drive, Keyser, W.Va.

The Sugar Shack is home to the College’s new maple syrup production. The Open House will feature demonstrations, displays and, of course, tastings. Light refreshments will be provided. Maple syrup will be for sale. For more information, contact Farm Manager Andrew Walker atAndrew.Walker@mail.wvu.edu

Eddie Thorne, a maintenance worker in Housing and Resident Life, was recently named the 2019 Outstanding Classified Staff Person of the Year at WVU Potomac State College. Making the presentation was Campus President Jennifer Orlikoff, PhD.

The West Virginia University Potomac State College/Community Jazz Ensemble will present its Spring Jazz Concert on Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Church-McKee Arts Center.  The band, which is under the direction of Fred Kesner, rehearses weekly at the college and is comprised of the area’s finest jazz musicians.

Special guest artist for this concert is Beau Hartman of Cumberland.  A very talented and versatile vocalist, Hartman will perform a special arrangement of Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life and will also swing with the band on a Gordon Goodwin arrangement of Too Close for Comfort.  

The West Virginia University Potomac State College Athletic Hall of Fame committee will hold its 32nd annual awards dinner on Thursday, April 25, at which time they will induct Conrad Carney (Class of 1983) and Jacke Healey (Class of 2008), into the PSC Athletic Hall of Fame.  Current sophomore athletes will also be recognized at this time.

Carney played football for the Catamounts before heading to the University of Kentucky on a football scholarship.  After graduating with a degree in business administration, and at the age of 23, Carney became one of the youngest managers in the history of McCaw Communications (formerly Cellular One). 

Sharing in the name reveal ceremony were: BSN Program Chair April Shapiro; BSN Instructor Linda Shroyer; Chemistry Lecturer Theresa Falkowski; Philanthropist Patricia Harman (Falkowski’s mother); and Program Assistant Rachel Raschella. 

A name reveal ceremony was recently held for the new child manikin in the nursing wing skills lab at West Virginia University School of Nursing: Potomac State College.  The name Jesse Lynn Falkowski was chosen by lecturer Theresa Falkowski, and was purchased by Falkowski and her mother, Patricia Harman, in memory of Falkowski’s late husband, Henry, who served as a professor in the Chemistry Department at the College for 41 years.  

The Ag and Forestry Club at West Virginia University Potomac State College will hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt for children in the community on Tuesday, April 16 at the College’s Indoor Riding Arena, located at the top of Chestnut Street.  Registration for this event is free and begins at 6 p.m.

Participants will be divided into two groups: age six and under, and age seven to 12.  Pony rides will also be available for the small fee of $5.  So bring your baskets, boots (it can get a bit messy), cameras, and kids for an evening of fun on the WVU Potomac State College campus.