News for WVU Potomac State College

Nicole Chadderton has been busy in her new role at West Virginia University Potomac State College as the AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) representative for 2019-2020.

The West Virginia University Potomac State College/Community Concert Band will perform its annual Fall Concert on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Church-McKee Arts Center Auditorium.  The concert is free and open to the public.
 
The band will perform a program with a variety of selections, beginning with Frank Erickson's "Lyric Overture."  The band will also perform "Lindbergh Variations" by Robert Sheldon; "American Symphonette No. 2" by Morton Gould; "Galop" by Dmitri Shostakovich; "Sleepers, Awake" by J. S. Bach, and the "Burst of Flame" Concert March by Richard Bowles.

The band will also perform a Holiday Concert on December 4 in conjunction with the WVU Potomac State College/Community Jazz Ensemble.

Students from West Virginia University’s Morgantown campus and the Potomac State College campus in Keyser spent spring break 2019 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an island located on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf, to attend the Royal University for Women.  PSC’s students included Hosanna Barrett (second from left, standing) and Brittany Nelson (fourth from left, standing).  

Discover Potomac State Day, an open house event, was recently held on the campus of West Virginia University Potomac State College in Keyser, W.Va. During the event, Emily Ratliff, left, participated in and won the photo challenge by tagging the College at #DiscoverPSC. She won the Potomac State College sweatshirt she’s wearing. She attends Hampshire High School. Campus President Jennifer Orlikoff presented the PSC gear to Ratliff. 

It’s a journey through the America’s as the Vienna Boys Choir performs at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 29 at the Church McKee Arts Center on the campus of Potomac State College as the Highland Arts Unlimited season continues.

Approximately 40 West Virginia University Potomac State College students volunteered to help plant trees on campus earlier this month. The College received a Carla Hardy WV Project CommuniTree grant from Cacapon Institute to plant 24 trees around the Administration Building, the Quad and surrounding areas. The initiative was under the direction of Biology Professors Vicki Huffman and Erin Cunningham. This is one of seven CommuniTree projects that will be taking place this fall. Since 2012, CommuniTree has sponsored 233 tree planting projects in the Potomac Headwaters and planted more than 6,200 trees with more than 15,000 volunteers.

Nick Gardner, interim program coordinator for the WVU Potomac State College library, demonstrates how easily accessible some local newspapers are now that these have been digitized. 

Could rehabilitating old railroad tracks as tourism trails be the secret for revitalizing rural Appalachian communities? Christiaan Abildso, PhD, who serves as an assistant professor at West Virginia University’s School of Public Health certainly thinks so.

Nathan Van Vranken, visiting instructor of geology and biology at West Virginia University Potomac State College, holds a cast of an aspidorhynchid fish. Aspidorhynchids, like Belonostomus, have been extinct for millions of years and are recognizable by their needle-like snout. (Photo credit: Nicholas Gardner, Mary F. Shipper Library)

After three days and 50 hours, Infinity Processing and Flux Iron overcame a field of 30 students in six teams to win  WV Forward’s inaugural Impact Challenge Weekend competition held at  West Virginia University’s  LaunchLab in  Evansdale Crossing. 

“The real winner is West Virginia,” said Frank Vitale, one of the judges.