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WVU will kick off an 11-month celebration of its 150th year on February 7, the University’s official founding date.

A number of West Virginia University faculty are available to discuss issues related to the Executive Order signed Friday (Jan. 27) by President Donald Trump suspending entry into the United States “of both nonimmigrants and immigrants” from at least seven countries for 90 days or more from the date the Executive Order was signed.

This year’s keynote speaker is Ernest Green from the historic Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green is the eldest of the “Little Rock Nine,” a group of high school students who entered Central High School on the morning of September 25, 1957, following the Supreme Court’s ruling to desegregate schools in 1954.

“Early Native Peoples in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture” by West Virginia University Native American studies professor Darla Spencer, examines what archaeologists do know about the Fort Ancient culture.

With the presidential inauguration just days away, a West Virginia University professor notes that President-elect Donald Trump?s frequent refusal to stick to a script could signal something completely different from what the American public has come to expect from presidential inaugurations.