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Many energy-producing states around the country, including West Virginia, are in budget trouble as revenues from extractive industries are sinking. Lawmakers in Charleston are debating which tax reforms will plug a $600 million hole, including eliminating the personal income tax and increasing the consumer sales and service tax. West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research Director John Deskins explains the economic distinctions in the effects of those two types of taxation.

Match Day – the day the graduating Class of 2017 medical students learn where they will spend the next several years as resident physicians. #MatchDay2017

The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will celebrate WVU’s 150th birthday in conjunction with Pi Day, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant, Pi. The event will feature “Pi”-ala-Mode and students in Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honorary, will host the “Pi” Face Challenge, which will feature faculty from the College.

As West Virginia University celebrates its 150th birthday, generations of alumni are reinvesting in their alma mater. For the Youngdahl family, that means giving back to the College of Creative Arts through the Richard Powell Trombone Scholarship, which will inspire future musicians

A health care policy expert at West Virginia University explains that the proposed American Health Care Act could be “particularly harmful for West Virginia” in the loss of individual coverage and more than $1 billion in federal funds, as well as a loss of 15,000 jobs.

As attention on international students attending U.S. universities has increased in the wake of proposed travel bans, West Virginia University students can speak to their experiences on campus and in the surrounding communities. International students not only promote diversity at WVU, they bring a different world view to campus and take their Mountaineer experience home with them, becoming valuable ambassadors.

Floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters except for fire. As flood waters rise in many West Virginia towns, West Virginia University Extension Service agents and specialists can offer information to help families prepare for and recover from floods.