The thrill of volcanoes led West Virginia University senior Holly Pettus to a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Hawaii this summer. Pettus, a senior geology student from Pineville spent nine weeks studying mantle xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico.
West Virginia University is a diverse campus for students who come from all 55 counties in West Virginia, all 50 states and more than 100 different countries. To celebrate that diversity, linguistics professor Kirk Hazen and journalism professor Mary Kay McFarland have created WVU Voices, a mini-documentary that highlight the many dialects and languages found on campus.
The holidays can be a difficult time for many, but for young people who have aged out of foster care it can be particularly rough. The MODIFY Program with the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities (WVU CED) is accepting donations for holiday gifts to be given to youth ages 17-23 who have aged out of foster care.
West Virginia University’s School of Dentistry fourth-year dentistry students have traveled throughout the state to bring healthy lifestyle choices to rural areas. Over the course of a year, dental students performed more than 17,000 clinical procedures.
West Virginia University will be hosting the first eSports tournament and gamers’ paradise after-party. Students across the East Coast will play the most popular eSports game, League of Legends, for the Eastern Esports Conference championship. Both the regional conference and the ACEL were founded by current WVU Collegiate Gaming Club.
West Virginia University is turning video gaming into a viable career path, as students are able to participate in focused programs through the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources in interactive technologies and serious gaming. WVU Libraries is hosting a series of events as part of International Games Week.
There will be blood. West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences instructor Amy Wilson will release the book, The Bite, The Breast, and The Blood: Why Vampires Suck Us In (McFarland) in 2018. And with Halloween approaching, Wilson explores the love affair the American culture has with those night stalking bloodsuckers.
Using West Virginia Forward as a lens, policy experts, corporate leaders and educational practitioners will discuss the state’s economic opportunities and challenges and the need to nurture the talent pipeline through the diversification of workforce development. The second annual West Virginia Legislators’ Forum on Education and the Economy will be held in Charleston, with an aim to engage legislators on how best to address the current landscape of public education in West Virginia. The Nov. 2 conference is hosted by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative and sponsored by West Virginia University, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and numerous community partners.
Daniel McTaggart isn’t your typical WVU Facilities Management employee. During the day, McTaggart can be found writing poetry that earned him the status of West Virginia's first Beat Poet Laureate.
With information at our finger tips, it’s sometimes hard to tell what’s real and what is fake news. West Virginia University’s libraries offers a variety of courses to students on how to do research and to look critically at how entertainment and news are delivered through traditional and social media.