West Virginia University’s annual welcome back concert, FallFest, will take place Tuesday, Aug. 14, on the Evansdale Rec Fields adjacent to the Student Rec Center. This year’s performers are Lil Yachty, Brothers Osborne and MisterWives.
More than 500 youth will compete in the State 4-H and FFA Junior Livestock Show, which includes showmanship and skillathon competitions.
“The Greenne$$ of the Red: How Macroeconomic Issues Changed West Virginia from Blue to Red” will focus on the drastic shift in voting trends from the 20th and 21st centuries. The talk will be held at WVU's Downtown Campus Library, Room 104 on Friday (Aug. 10) at 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Students will be integrated into campus life and culture through a series of Welcome Week activities and events designed to introduce them to life as a Mountaineer with a balance of academic, service and social components that will emphasize the importance of working hard, playing smart and serving their new community.
SGA members will convene on campus this weekend for their annual leadership retreat to work on personal leadership skills, character-building, and give back to the community.
West Virginia University and Mountaineer Area Robotics to host West Virginia Robotics Extreme, the world's only 26-hour endurance robotics competition. The competition features sophisticated robots designed by teams of high school students from around the world. This year's game “Power Up” takes the robots inside an 8-bit video game themed field.
The Statler College will host two Engineering Challenge Camps the week of July 23. Engineering the Grand Challenges will immerse middle school campers in activities related to the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges. Highlights include activities related to infrastructure, cybersecurity and virtual reality. Move and Improve, a camp for elementary school students, will feature activities ranging from building composite bones to constructing and assembling module houses.
The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University will host two Engineering Challenge Camps the week of July 15.
The 2018 Northeast Agricultural and Biological Engineering Conference brings together scientists and educators dedicated to the advancement of agricultural, food and biological systems engineering.
The West Virginia Water Research Institute, WVU Energy Institute and National Research Center for Coal and Energy Brief remarks on the research objectives, potential results and impending commercialization impact will be delivered by director of the WVU Energy Institute Brian Anderson, WVU President Gordon Gee, U.S. Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg, and Paul J. McRoberts, regional industry mining, metals and cement manager at Rockwell Automation, Inc. Representatives from the National Energy Technology Laboratory will also attend.