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Lowe to deliver advanced welding training for RCBI
Brad Lowe has joined the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University as a technical trainer for the newly established Advanced Welding Program. Lowe, who is based at the RCBI Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center in Huntington, will deliver training in...
RCBI expands program to train ex-inmates affected by opioid crisis
A one-of-a-kind initiative introduced last year by the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University to provide formerly incarcerated women affected in some way by the opioid crisis a pathway to careers in manufacturing is expanding to include men....
West Virginia’s first flying robotics competition is May 15
The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University and NASA's Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility are teaming up with the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation to sponsor West Virginia's first flying robotics competition for middle & high...
Hearst Foundations fund RCBI scholarship opportunities
Money will assist rural/lower income, female, minority students pursue careers as machinists, welders The Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University (RCBI) has new scholarship opportunities for underrepresented students as part of its effort to expand...
RCBI to present virtual hands-on 3D Printing & Maker Camps
The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University has announced dates for its popular series of statewide 3D Printing and Maker Camps for middle and high school students. Three virtual week-long “Design to Production” camps will run 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily...
RCBI assists U.S. Navy with 3D printing technology
Navy sailors aboard the USS Tulsa now have access to 3D printing technology and the know-how to use it thanks, in part, to the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University and its Apprenticeship Works partner AST2. RCBI’s Apprenticeship Works and AST2...
Delta Tech Operations to partner with aviation maintenance program
Delta Air Lines Technical Operations has announced that it will designate the new Marshall University/Mountwest Community & Technical College Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) Program as a partner educational institution. The partnership – the first of its...
Craft beverage summit to focus on relationship between growers, bottlers
The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University, Brilliant Stream and the West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition announce the latest in a series of statewide events to support and expand the burgeoning craft beverage industry in West Virginia. The number...
Observatory is growing talent with help of RCBI
The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory has teamed with the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University to develop the skilled workforce it needs to maintain operations of its numerous radio telescopes and other instruments, observing the...
ARC, DoE’s National Energy Tech Lab award advanced welding grant to RCBI
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) today awarded the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University $336,796 to expand advanced welding training in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to better serve key industries such as automotive, aviation,...
