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Two men standing in a barn. One man is wearing a blue hat with a gold WVU logo and a gray suite with a yellow bow tie. The other man is wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans.

Good times ahead with Gee during WVU Day at State Fair

WVU President Gordon Gee travels to the State Fair of West Virginia this week to celebrate the University’s deep roots throughout the Mountain State. Joining Gee are Jorge Atiles, dean and director of WVU Extension, Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean of WVU Health Sciences, and Mary Roush, the 68th Mountaineer Mascot.

A performance stage is in the back of this photo. Between it and the camera are hundreds of people facing the stage with their hands in the air.

FallFest 2022 credential and event guidelines

FallFest, West Virginia University’s free welcome-back-to-campus concert for students, returns Tuesday (Aug. 16) for the first time since 2019 with performances from Polo G, Dustin Lynch, Dirty Heads and Tay Money.

People signing a yellow flag that reads

FallFest returns, joins list of more than 50 WVU Welcome Week events and activities

West Virginia University kicks off Welcome Week with arrivals at residence halls this week followed by many events. Students will be immersed into campus life and culture by getting involved in upwards of four dozen activities designed to showcase life as a Mountaineer with academic, service and social elements highlighting the importance of working hard while having fun and serving the community.

This photo was taken in a lab. A person in a yellow shirt and beige and blue plaid flannel with shoulder length dark blonde hair stands at a black countertop cutting apples.

WVU symposium to showcase student research

The Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium is an in-person, judged poster session featuring students engaged in summer research programming at West Virginia University.

On the left, President Gee smiles at the camera while wearing a Flying WV hat, blue vest and gold bow tie. On the right is Mary Roush, the Mountaineer Mascot
This photo is taken in a classroom with gray walls and a big screen TV. A woman with long hair wearing black dress stands at the front of the room while holding papers. She is facing the camera. The backs of the heads of three other people are visible.
More than a dozen students wearing blue work clothes and hard hats stand in a factory room with gray walls.
The Flying WV logo
A young person smiles at the camera while wearing full firefighting gear, including a hat. Parts of three other people in firefighting gear are in the frame as well.
In a room with blue walls, a person with dark hair wearing a salmon colored shirt bends down to talk with a person in a dark shirt whose back is to the camera

WVU NASA WV EPSCoR to host inaugural NASA EPSCoR HackWeek

Students, professors, data managers and others from New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia are coming together at West Virginia University this week to explore NASA’s problems of interest and learn about open science practices and software.