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West Virginia University students studying at the  Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design will have new opportunities to thrive with the establishment of a  charitable remainder unitrust by Donald and Beverly Baker.

A $50,000 scholarship has been established to support graduate students at West Virginia University.

Bircher is the founder and president of MMI Textiles, Inc. based just outside of Cleveland, Ohio.

Graduating in 1993 from the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design, Bircher went into the family business of textiles, working for her father and stepmother, Jim and Karen Bircher at National Dye Works in South Carolina. Four years later she founded MMI Textiles, Inc., with the letters representing “Me, Myself, and I”.

The former students of a staple in the West Virginia University Department of Accounting are giving back to the College and University to honor his work and to look to the future of the industry. The gift is given in honor of Robert S. Maust, who retired in 2013 after more than 50 years at the College of Business and Economics and made a tremendous impact on the lives of countless accounting students.

West Virginia University is one of 10 higher education institutions in the United States to be awarded an Innovation Fund grant to grow study abroad partnerships with Argentina. 

Steve Antoline, one of the co-chairs of the $60 million capital campaign to build a new home for WVU Medicine Children’s, has donated significant funds to support the Antoline Family Lobby in the new tower. 

Four students pursuing doctoral degrees at West Virginia University are receiving funding through the Ruby Scholars Graduate Fellowship Program. The seventh class of fellows includes Hannah Clipp, Michelle Frankot, Dylan Linville and Lakyn Sanders. 

Football is in the air and that means  West Virginia University Libraries and the  WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics are teaming up once again for the Mountaineer Touchdown Challenge, our annual fundraising campaign to benefit the Libraries.​

A resident of Charleston, Orders is CEO of Orders Construction Company, Inc., a highway, utility and industrial construction company with operations in West Virginia and Virginia.

Orders is a 1972 graduate of WVU with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and has been a member of the Foundation Board of Directors since 2011. His wife, Ann, also graduated from WVU’s College of Education and Human Services in 1972.