A record $172,842 was donated this fall to help the West Virginia University Marching Band travel to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City and other performances around the state and region.
The No. 16 West Virginia Mountaineers and the Miami Hurricanes will square off in the 2016 Russell Athletic Bowl on Dec. 28, at 5:30 p.m. at Camping World Stadium. Additional tickets in the WVU allotment are now on sale to the general public.
West Virginia football coach Dana Holgorsen has been named the American Football Coaches Association's District 4 Regional Coach of the Year.
The conference will be held October 12-13, 2017 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown.
Thomas A. Heywood, a Charleston attorney and civic leader, and Benjamin M. Statler, a retired energy executive and renowned philanthropist, have been named to the West Virginia University Board of Governors by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
West Virginia University will hold a bell-ringing ceremony, coordinated by the Office of Student Life and Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, on Friday (Dec. 9) in remembrance of student Paul Hartel.
Alumni and fans of West Virginia University are invited to travel to sunny Orlando, Florida to watch the Mountaineers face the Miami Hurricanes in the 2016 Russell Athletic Bowl.
John Renton, professor emeritus of geology at West Virginia University, was not only the first person in his family to go to college. He was also one of only two students from his hometown of Beadling, Pennsylvania to enroll in college.
A scholarship from the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation in spring 2016, part of a first-of-its-kind philanthropic gift to the Department of Forensic and Investigative Science made a "major impact" on Eberly College of Arts and Science students.
West Virginia University has been named a 2017 Military Friendly Employer by Victoria Media -- the only higher education institution to make the list.