Keith Zullig, a researcher in the WVU School of Public Health, has investigated behavior change as a critical component in mitigating gun violence in U.S. schools and is warning about potential far-reaching, long-term impacts on kids if, what he sees as a “persistent public health crisis,” remains unaddressed.
Jeff Daniels, a professor of counseling at West Virginia University, helped develop a model that focuses on detectable behaviors of school and workplace violence perpetrators based on research in an upcoming book.
West Virginia University, along with the NASA Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility and the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, is holding a robotics competition for middle school girls as part of the Competition of VEX Educational Robotics to Advance Girls Education.
To showcase a new experiential and educational hub for future West Virginia University graduates who will help drive the state’s economy, WVU will open the doors of Reynolds Hall to state lawmakers visiting Morgantown during May legislative interim meetings.
West Virginia University Army ROTC Mountaineer Battalion Annual Spring Commissioning Ceremony will take place Friday, May 13, at 7 p.m., in the WVU Mountainlair Ballroom, 1550 University Ave., Morgantown.
The sixth Remake Learning Days festival hosted by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative will take place in communities across West Virginia May 12-23.
West Virginia University’s Commencement Weekend returns to the Morgantown campus in full force after two years of pandemic-restructured ceremonies with 16 ceremonies over three days Friday through Sunday, May 13-15 with as many as 4,500 spring graduates, President Gordon Gee, Provost Maryanne Reed, Chancellor Clay Marsh and other University officials, as well as honorary degree recipients including Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the U.S.
"Shocking” is how a law professor at West Virginia University describes the alleged leak of a draft majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court, first reported by Politico, which appears to strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing federal constitutional protections for abortion rights along with 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey case which maintained those rights.
West Virginia University Extension Ultimate Outdoor Adventure Camp, a three-day outdoor adventure camp for state youths ages 12-18 that includes kayaking, survival skills, hiking, shooting sports, ATV training, fly fishing and much more will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, at WVU Jackson’s Mill. Mountaineer Mascot Mary Roush, alternate Gunnar Webb and former Mountaineer Mascot Colson Glover will attend.
WVU students will present several show-and-tell demonstrations from competition teams including: the WVU Formula SAE racecar competition team, the WVU Experimental Rocketry team, the WVU EcoCAR Mobility Challenge team, the WVU University Rover Challenge team, the WVU AIAA Design, Build, Fly team, and Spacecraft Design student participating in the NASA RASC-AL competition. The event will be held April 26-28 in the Engineering Sciences Building.