West Virginia University is 150 years old this year. In honor of this landmark date and of Women’s History Month, the University is celebrating the future that WVU helps make possible for the young girls of today.
West Virginia University’s Experimental Rocketry team is preparing to take off for competition at the Spaceport America Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where it will compete against 110 teams from 11 countries. The team has built its own 12-foot fiber glass rocket designed to carry 8.8 pounds of payload 10,000 feet into the sky, which it will test next month at a Tripoli Rocketry Association event.
A West Virginia University professor who served as an international election observer in Ukraine says Russia’s interference in the U.S. 2016 election demonstrates that Russia sees America as an adversary and is willing to use “aggressive measures to advance its aims” of creating instability.
A West Virginia University professor in the School of Public Health began teaching about climate change more than 20 years ago, hoping reasonable people would see a trend and take action to prevent melting ice caps and rising seas. Instead, the issue has become a political dispute, with many key elected officials saying they don’t believe it’s happening
President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would increase defense spending by $54 billion and then offset that with cuts to more than 18 other agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes for Health.
West Virginia University President Gordon Gee will deliver a State of the University address emphasizing WVU’s commitment to students, learning, research, inclusivity and civility.
Eat scrumptious cuisine and learn what styles of craft beer to pair—or not to pair—during this fun and relaxing evening hosted by West Virginia University Continuing Professional Education. Learn from the experts during “Brewing Up a Meal,” at Table 9 in Morgantown on Thursday, March 30, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The 100 members of the WVU School of Medicine Class of 2019 will soon don the most significant symbol of their chosen profession – the white coat – for the first time at the annual John W. Traubert White Coat Ceremony.
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