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The Reed College of Media and College of Creative Arts will merge to form the new WVU College of Creative Arts and Media as of July 1, 2024. Get details.

PR capstone students help promote local nonprofit

Nine PR capstone students are applying skills learned in the classroom to increase public awareness of a local nonprofit organization.

Students in Dr. Rita Colistra’s public relations campaigns course are working with Garth Lindley, founder of Green Earth Event Services, formerly known as Eco Race Events, to launch a campaign to promote the importance of environmental waste diversion before, during and after events.

The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of GEES’ services, which involve working with event and race coordinators to ensure that all event waste is recycled, composted or used for other environmentally friendly methods by using a single-stream system. Read more.