WVU’s Aubrey Cumberledge Honored for Writing Appalachia
WVU First2 student and scholar, Aubrey Cumberledge, was honored for an excellent writing submission about Appalachia submitted as part of the Mountaineer SpeakWrite Writing Appalachia…
Student Director Updates from 10/28
Blue Ridge CTC- We are currently working on getting our PDSA alongside Marshall going to do a Dinner with Deans event for our campus. We…
Students illuminate a Problem with Research Internships: Mentor Quality
We asked our students: why don’t more of you participate in research? Participating in research is a well established high impact practice in college, after…
2023 First2 Campus RFP Information Session
Want to know more about funding for 2023/2024? Want to learn how to apply to be a First2 Campus? Well, we want to tell ya!…
Education Alliance Summit focused on building a K-12 teacher pipeline
Although I was unable to attend the recent Education Alliance Summit, I was happy t receive the slide deck from the day. This year’s Summit…
National First Generation College Celebration November 8!!
Are you planning a First-Gen Celebration at your college or institution? This is a great day to highlight First2 Network and the incredible power and…
Student Director
Here at Blue Ridge we had our first club field trip! We took a bus of 25 student participants to The National Cryptologic Museum for…
Spooky Updates with Fairmont State University!
Fairmont State Univerity’s First2 Network club has had some entertaining activities this past few weeks! We painted pumpkins during our club meeting and some students…
WVU update for October
-Hannah Petronek, alumni: Surviving grad school, setting up two large experiments in these coming weeks, giving my first graduate seminar nov 1st! -Jordan Means: Presenting…
WVU Tech Student & Faculty Engagement Bingo
This event was designed to increase student and faculty engagement. There was a huge turnout and feedback was positive.