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West Virginia University brings athletics and academics together to help improve the lives of West Virginians as the School of Nursing and College of Physical Activities and Sport Sciences join with the women’s basketball team to provide 8,000 Morgantown area elementary and junior high school students with health and wellness education. Topics include nutrition, stranger/predator danger, oral health, the impact of electronics and skin/acne care and more. This is another way WVU fulfills its land-grant mission of education, service and research.

The West Virginia University LGBTQ+ Center is hosting its inaugural Transgender Advocacy Month in November to recognize the transgender community at WVU, raise awareness of transgender rights and celebrate a culture of inclusiveness across campus. To commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the LGBTQ+ Center will host a candlelight vigil and name-reading ceremony before Thanksgiving break Thursday (Nov. 15) at 6 p.m. in Woodburn Circle. The vigil will honor the trans people who have been killed this year from transphobic violence.

West Virginia University, including Health Sciences and regional campuses, will hold its second annual Day of Giving, a 24-hour online event to raise money for scholarships and the greatest needs of the University and individual colleges and schools. Last year, more than $2.9 million was raised from more than 2,500 donors in the first WVU Day of Giving.

Patriotism, Politics and the Playing Field,” a panel discussion presented as part of the West Virginia University David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas, will feature national sports journalists, commentators and athletes discussing the intersection of sports, race and media during a time of intense political division and partisanship. A variety of timely issues will be addressed Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms, including the recent decision by the NFL to ban players from kneeling during the national anthem.

President Gee and Dean Javier Reyes will announce a significant gift to the University Friday (Nov. 9) at 1 p.m.

In a unique agreement that will provide West Virginia University significant financial and intellectual resources, Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers today (Nov. 9) announced a gift of time, talent and treasure to support a recently announced start-up engine at the College of Business and Economics. Additionally, the College will be renamed the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.

The West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities is expanding its programming to offer a new program, Behavior and Learning Intervention Services. This program will help children ages 18 months to 21-years-old build communication and daily living and play skills, while decreasing challenging behaviors like tantrums, aggression and self-injury. Clients can be involved in social skills group and parents can learn how to increase desired behaviors.

West Virginia University faculty members are available for commentary and insight regarding the 2018 midterm elections and current issues in the U.S.

WVU Extension Service will host a two-day conference offering an affordable opportunity for women who own or run their own agricultural operations to learn from peers and other female mentors in a supportive, inclusive environment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s newly released impact report shows that more that 79,000 deaths were attributed to influenza last year. And while West Virginia leads the nation in flu vaccination, with 46.3 percent of the adult population vaccinated, the United States has a long way to go in helping overcome deaths and illnesses related to the flu.