{"id":24425,"date":"2022-09-02T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=24425"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:05:26","slug":"marshall-serves-as-partner-on-multiple-projects-in-multimillion-dollar-federal-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/marshall-serves-as-partner-on-multiple-projects-in-multimillion-dollar-federal-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall to partner on multiple projects in $63 million federal award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An announcement Friday that nearly $63 million\u00a0in federal Economic Development Authority (EDA) funding to West Virginia\u00a0as part of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge\u00a0equals a direct investment to Marshall University and its regional partners\u00a0for projects in the Huntington-Charleston corridor. <span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Marshall University <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/president\/brad-d-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">President Brad D. Smith<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0congratulated Brandon Dennison and the\u00a0Appalachian Climate Technologies (ACT) Now Coalition which received the news earlier this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cMarshall University is privileged to serve with the amazing team who will bring innovation in research, training and workforce development to the Mountain State,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWest Virginia stands on the threshold of a great economic reawakening, thanks to an engaged and forward-focused generation of thinkers and doers. The synergy\u00a0being created across our universities, our federal, state,\u00a0and local levels of government and our private businesses is highlighting\u00a0the grit and grace of our Appalachian spirit while propelling economic growth for generations to come. West Virginia is quickly becoming the demonstration project for the rest of the world. Our time has come!\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Smith said the\u00a0Marshall projects include\u00a0the following:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\"> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/\">College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>s (CECS) will receive$6\u00a0million to develop\u00a0and staff\u00a0the\u00a0Battery Research Institute at a new $17. 5 million center in South Charleston. CECS Dean David Dampier says the institute will be developed\u00a0to support, primarily, the electric aviation industry and the need for batteries that are powerful, resilient,\u00a0and efficiently developed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcbi.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cginny.painter%40marshall.edu%7C625d0b05f3fe4547e7be08da8cd83ceb%7C239ab2783bba4c78b41d8508a541e025%7C0%7C0%7C637977157616600384%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=48TAC8GoVaYfudjNkvC0eyzx1WO%2FGTZZDKH6w9IWvYo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Marshall\u2019s Robert C. Byrd Institute, <\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">long a regional leader in welding programs, will receive\u00a0a permanent\u00a0home\u00a0for\u00a0its\u00a0Welding &amp; Robotics Technology Training Center\u00a0as part of the City of Huntington\u2019s $12 million H-BIZ Center\u00a0on the\u00a0previous\u00a0ACF Lot on Third Avenue.\u00a0The program is in collaboration with\u00a0Mountwest\u00a0Community and Technical College and will serve as an anchor\u00a0tenant of the H-BIZ site.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/\">Alliance for the Economic Development of Southern West Virginia<\/a>, a program led by Marshall, will receive $750,000 for workforce development programs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Additional funding is directed to the Marshall University Brownfields Assistance Center and the annual Small Communities, Big Solutions Conference. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Marshall University Vice President for Government Affairs Charlotte Weber said the EDA funding is incredibly exciting and a real game changer for the state of West Virginia and Marshall University. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ACT Now Coalition is led by Coalfield Development and includes the cities of Huntington, Charleston,\u00a0and Logan; Marshall and West Virginia universities; and several economic revitalization organizations and private-sector innovators. The Coalition\u2019s efforts focus on building a new economy for Southern West Virginia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An announcement Friday that nearly $63 million\u00a0in federal Economic Development Authority (EDA) funding to West Virginia\u00a0as part of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge\u00a0equals a direct investment to Marshall University and its regional partners\u00a0for projects in the Huntington-Charleston corridor. \u00a0 Marshall University President Brad D. Smith\u00a0congratulated Brandon Dennison and the\u00a0Appalachian Climate Technologies (ACT) Now Coalition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,45,46,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cecs","category-featured","category-murc","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28340,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions\/28340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}