The sixth-seeded West Virginia University women’s basketball team makes its 12th NCAA Championship appearance against 11th-seeded Elon on Friday, March 17, in a 2:30 p.m. ET contest at the XFINITY Center in College Park, Maryland. Friday’s contest will air on ESPN2 in its entirety in the Pittsburgh region, West Virginia and North Carolina.
A program that grew from seven undergraduates to 300 students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels will celebrate its 100th anniversary at West Virginia University. Founded in 1916-17, chemical engineering has grown from being a program that taught students to design, build and manage manufacturing plants to one that now includes biomedical engineering and a focus on biotechnology, energy and materials.
Fernando Lima, assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at West Virginia University, has earned a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work to improve modular systems for energy applications. The award comes with $500,000 in funding over a five-year period.
The West Virginia University women's basketball team arrived in College Park on Wednesday evening, as the Mountaineers make final preparations for their 2017 NCAA Championship First Round game on Friday, March 17.
West Virginia is back in the Empire State and looking to stick around a little bit longer than it did a year ago when the third-seeded Mountaineers saw their trip to the NCAA Tournament quickly go up in flames in Brooklyn, New York, against 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin.
Using math to understand the Netflix recommender system or investigating what prompts people to create hoaxes are topics covered in two of the innovative courses that will be developed by the inaugural class of Honors Faculty Fellows at West Virginia University.
West Virginia University sent a delegation of three academics to the National Humanities Alliance’s Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day on March 13th and 14th in Washington D.C.
Some West Virginia University traditions like singing Country Roads are long-time favorites of alumni, but a new tradition that will continue the Mountaineer connection can have alumni hitting those roads and headed to one of the state’s premier summer venues.
West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media and Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communication are partnering to present INTEGRATE West Virginia, a two-day conference for marketing communications students and professionals. INTEGRATE WV will be held June 2-3 at Marshall University’s new Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington.
West Virginia University will hold a bell-ringing ceremony, coordinated by the Office Campus and Community Life and Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, on Friday (March 17) in remembrance of students Rebecca Williams, Arthur Bagenda and Calvin Dworshak. The service will begin around noon.