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Breaking the Mold

Breaking the Mold

MBA graduate Kristin Morvik is using her business education to educate the world.  

Formerly a brand manager for corporate entities like Kroger and the Cincinnati Bengals, Morvik made a career transition to become a business education teacher at Boone County High School in Kentucky. Public education proved to be her true calling, yielding big results for Boone County students. Morvik – who is also involved as a dance coach and Future Business Leaders of America coach – recently won her district’s Break the Mold Award, which is given to teachers who go above and beyond in connecting with the school community. 

“I hope I can encourage my students to go into business,” said Morvik, “And that they’ll maybe be change agents for better ways of learning business.” 

Learn more about Morvik and her accomplishment. 

Focus Forward

A student veteran and graduate student in business administration is in elite company as one of only 18 women chosen for a fellowship designed to support military-connected females.

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Congratulations to marketing student Madison Bowers, who was named a Mountaineer of Distinction this fall. The award was presented during WVU’s Mountaineer Week in October 2021 and recognizes exemplary academic achievement and extracurricular involvement. Way to go, Madison! “As someone who is from a tiny town in Coal County, West Virginia, winning this award meant the world to me. I firmly believe that it takes a village to raise a kid and I am endlessly thankful to my family, friends, community, and Chambers College family, for their help along the way. Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer.” 

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First Pitch

Supported by Silicon Valley CEO Ray Zinn, the first ZinnStarter Pitch Competition, hosted by the LaunchLab, gave aspiring collegiate entrepreneurs an opportunity to win cash to build their ideas into the next groundbreaking product or business. Winners included: First place ($2,500): Emma Adams, WVU animal and nutritional sciences major, and her business idea PetRecord, which provides universal medical records for pets in emergency situations; second place ($1,500): Cameron Keefe, global supply chain management major, and her idea ThermoRoller, which combines physical massage with temperature control to relieve sore muscle pain; and third place ($1,000) to the team of Austin Davis, Anne Byer and Emily Thomas, from the University of Charleston, and their idea Second Chance, a program that helps give active control back to people with quadriplegia and paraplegia. 

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