WVU tackles cancer with diverse research efforts
West Virginia University's Medical Center leads a broad cancer research push funded by large grants. Dr. Alvin Warne notes cures are improving with early diagnosis and treatments. Studies by Barbara Jones, John Harley, Knox Van Dyke, Sundaram Ramanan, Joseph Saporetti, David Blaydes, and John Jones explore leukemia, Hodgkin disease, breast cancer, and plant hormones related to growth, aiming to reduce incurable cases and improve detection.
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Barbara Jones
John Harley
Knox van Dyke
Sundaram Ramanan
Joseph Saporetti
David F. Blaydes
Warne
John Jones
Staff Discontent Over WVU Pay Hike Announcement
WVU officials reveal most staff will get a $108 raise for the fiscal year in lieu of a typical percentage increase. The plan favors upgraded and certain medical employees who will receive higher raises, prompting widespread discontent among staff across wage levels.
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James G. Harlow
Morgantown drug raid leaves three in jail and tenacious insurance debate
Three men including Altha Lee Talbot 25 Buckhannon John M Russell and Samuel Bernard Levin remained in Monongalia County Jail on bonds of 1000 each after Morgantown Police raided a Snider Street house arresting ten others for trespassing and possession warrants Five trespassers were fined 20 and released along with the three who face additional charges Talbot and Russell are charged with trespassing Levin faces nonpayment of board and lodging The raid involved 14 officers amid a broader discussion of a state employee health insurance plan and potential changes to coverage and administration.
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Buckhannon
John M. Russell
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Samuel Bernard Levin
Philadelphia
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Kenmore St
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Washington
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Robert James Wilson
Harrisville
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Levin
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Joseph Delia
Public Employe’s Insurance Board
Delia
Board of Regents
Ernst
Charles Lazzell
Laborers’ International Union
Lazzell
William Moreland
Monongalia
Mason-Dixonland honors war dead on Memorial Day
Flags fly at half mast across Mason-Dixonland as Americans pause a long weekend to honor fallen military service members. Special observances are planned in Morgantown Pisgah Terra Alta Grafton Uniontown Point Marion Smithfield Md Friendsville Md with services and ceremonies by churches and local groups.
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Pisgah
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Grafton
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Smithfield
Friendsville
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Terrata
WVU Faces Tightened Race Equity as Black Faculty Count Sits Low
West Virginia University weighs strain from a small number of black professors amid affirmative action aims. Nelson Bickley Jr., leaving as black student adviser, proposes a black professor exchange and a mandatory minority studies course for teachers and counselors.
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Dominion Post
West Virginia University
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West Virginia State College
Institute
Jay Barton
WVU
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Ernst
James G. Harlow
Monongalia County
West Virginia State
Morgantown
Quadrad 72 promises eight hours of top music for graduates
Local high school seniors and guests will enjoy eight hours of top out-of-state rock from Sebastian Sass, Zoo, and Second Coming in the Mountainlair Ballroom. Games, buffet, breakfast, and a late movie supplement the event, with tickets $3.50 for seniors $4.50 for others and admission after 11 pm barred.
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Dominion Post
Mountainlair
Sebastian Sass
Zoo
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Las Vegas
Edward Waybright
Carl Cather
Martin VanVoorhis
Quadrad
Triad
Morgantown
University
St. Francis
Clay- Battelle High School
Hotel Morgan
George Crago to retire from Dominion News editorship
George A Crago will retire this week as business labor editor of the Dominion News and the Sunday Dominion Post His last day on the job will be Friday Crago served 12 years on the morning paper including two hitches He will write a humor column Montani Hootani for Panorama Magazine and a business news column for the Sunday paper Wendell R Cochran succeeds Crago as business labor editor Cochran a former staff writer just completed Army service as first lieutenant He and his wife and child will reside here
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