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Hoping to attract more students and professionals to the cybersecurity field, TechConnect West Virginia unveiled its WV Cybersecurity Workforce Strategic Initiative Tuesday morning. The initiative, completed with cooperation from the West Virginia Office of Technology, West Virginia High Technology Consortium, West Virginia National Guard and West Virginia Forward, focuses on training and employing state residents in the cybersecurity field.

A key West Virginia Forward finding is that we must do a better job of educating and training our current workforce and building a future talent pipeline. As our state has exported coal, oil and natural gas, we have also been exporting our most precious resource: people. Transforming education will reverse this exodus.

In “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs,” and in a viral TED talk, journalist Johann Hari explains how, for nearly a century, we’ve battled addiction by punishing and shaming both dealers and people suffering from addiction.

Teams from seven different high schools across the state have advanced to the final round of the West Virginia High School Business Plan Competition.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., spoke last week about her bill to redesignate the New River Gorge National River to the New River Gorge National Park. The designation would include more than 70,000 acres of land along 53 miles of the New River.

West Virginia University’s efforts to transform the state’s economy got a major boost Tuesday with the donation of $2 million by longtime partner Huntington Bank. The money was donated to the university’s Economic Startup Engine, which was announced in October. Its mission is to help new businesses hone their ideas further and develop mentor relationships and partner with existing businesses as part of the West Virginia Forward Initiative.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Among the many targets for economic growth listed in the West Virginia Forward initiative, one that could offer the quickest and potentially largest dividend is cybersecurity. That belief that has become the driving force behind a team working to educate, inform and build a statewide coalition in hopes of creating a statewide cybersecurity sector.

MORGANTOWN — A recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy further validated the benefits of and need for the Appalachian Storage and Trade Hub.

Tom Hansell has written an excellent book focusing on one of West Virginia’s biggest challenges. “After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales” discusses the important question “If we can’t mine coal, what are we going to do?”

A group of West Virginia University supply chain students at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics has struck a partnership with Grow Ohio Valley on a project aimed at reducing “food deserts.” That project could help with West Virginia’s food access problem and address the problem on a global scale....