{"id":27749,"date":"2025-02-12T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T01:24:23","slug":"marshall-university-president-issues-statement-on-wv-power-tech-center-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/marshall-university-president-issues-statement-on-wv-power-tech-center-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University president issues statement on WV POWER Tech Center announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Marshall University President Brad D. Smith issued the following statement regarding Gov. Patrick Morrisey&#8217;s announcement this evening of a new West Virginia POWER Tech Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to support Gov. Morrisey\u2019s vision to establish West Virginia at the forefront of emerging technologies and innovations with the creation of the West Virginia POWER Tech Center. This center will bring together a statewide collaboration of higher education institutions, including Marshall, to supercharge our technology, energy and innovation sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a global energy leader, it\u2019s West Virginia energy that has built our great nation and will continue to power our nation\u2019s next chapter of success. Marshall is proud to help spearhead the state\u2019s collective energy and technology strategy, especially focusing on workforce development in a world powered by artificial intelligence (AI.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a national leader in cyber security and advanced manufacturing, Marshall University is eager to continue to scale these efforts in support of this vision and in partnership with the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University President Brad D. Smith issued the following statement regarding Gov. Patrick Morrisey&#8217;s announcement this evening of a new West Virginia POWER Tech Center. \u201cWe are excited to support Gov. Morrisey\u2019s vision to establish West Virginia at the forefront of emerging technologies and innovations with the creation of the West Virginia POWER Tech Center. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749","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\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27756,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions\/27756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}