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.
Asbestos is banned in 60 countries and its use is heavily restricted in the U.S., where up to 15,000 deaths per year are asbestos-related. The global consensus —from the World Health Organization to the office of the Surgeon General—is that there is no safe level of asbestos exposure or controlled use of asbestos. The Trump administration is seeking to reinterpret the meaning of the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was restructured under a bipartisan Congressional agreement during the Obama administration, because Brazil, the principal supplier of asbestos to the U.S., recently banned it. The limited supply of asbestos the U.S. imports now comes from Ukraine.
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.
This fall, students in the West Virginia University Reed College of Media will partner with the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication in a shared reporting and advocacy communications project. The two-year effort, funded by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, will document the issue of women’s incarceration in West Virginia and Oklahoma, the two states with the highest levels of imprisoned women.
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.
While opposition to manufacturing a gun using a 3D printer has focused on the safety of others, a West Virginia University forensic science expert says that the initial risk falls on the person firing a 3D printed weapon.
A West Virginia University graduate student hopes to help African youth through sport. Zenzi Huysmans, who was born in the Kingdom of eSwatini in southern Africa, wants to give back to her home country by determining whether sport-based initiatives are an effective tool to support healthy development for young Swazis.
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.