Shepherd University

The founder of one of the country’s top theater festivals for new plays is retiring. Ed Herendeen has been the producing director for the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia for the past 30 years.

Shepherd University has named a native West Virginian to its first “storyteller-in-residence” position, with an eye on sharing Appalachian folklore with…

Updated on Aug. 12, 2020 at 9:50 a.m. All of West Virginia’s higher education institutions have varying return-to-campus plans in place for the fall 2020…

There have been a lot of questions about what public schooling in West Virginia will look like in the fall, but there’s also quite a few questions about…

Unemployment across the nation is at an all-time high with millions of Americans out of work. In West Virginia, more than 160,000 residents have filed for…

As the coronavirus continues to spread in West Virginia, the need for personal protective equipment, or PPE, has increased as well. But more than two…

At least two universities in the Mountain State are using 3D printing technology to make much-needed personal protective gear for first responders and…

Shepherd University President Mary Hendrix announced Wednesday that the remainder of the 2020 spring semester will be taught completely online. President…

Author Crystal Wilkinson is the 2019 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University.Wilkinson’s second book Water Street was chosen by…

More than 180 solar panels are now on the roof of Shepherd University’s Scarborough Library. It’s one of the largest solar panel installations in West…