MIKE QUILLEN TO RECEIVE POUNDSTONE AWARD

WVU’s College of Engineering and Mineral Resources has announced that Alpha Natural Resources President and CEO, Mike Quillen, is the recipient of the William Poundstone Lecture and Distinguished Engineering of Mines Award for the fall semester 2007.  His lecture, “Fast Company:  Sustaining a Business Model in the Rapidly Changing World of Coal Mining”, will be delivered on November 15, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. in Room 112 Mineral Resources Building on WVU’s Evansdale Campus in Morgantown.