West Virginia University graduate student Cassandra Stewart is the perfect example of how planting a seed can lead to more growth than expected. Seeds from WVU Extension’s Grow This program inspired Stewart, a student in the WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, to make textiles using natural dyes from flowers she grew.
The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, in conjunction with the WVU Foundation, has announced a generous gift from Ken Kendrick, Arizona Diamondbacks owner and WVU alumnus, to support the WVU Baseball program. The gift includes the renaming of Monongalia County Ballpark. The facility now will be known as Kendrick Family Ballpark at the Monongalia County Baseball Complex.
Charlie Long, a junior political science and philosophy dual major and member of the Honors College from Charleston, and Abigail Browning, a junior psychology major from Hurricane, will serve as West Virginia University student body president and vice president, respectively, for the 2024-25 academic year.
After working summer camps with kids, Tyler Derkotch knew it was what he wanted to do for a living. At West Virginia University, he found the physical education and kinesiology program offered in the College of Applied Human Sciences exposed him to the hands-on learning he enjoyed in a field he was passionate about, further strengthening his conviction about his future.
A distinguished West Virginia University educator and administrator, Dr. John F. Brick, recently retired, marking the end of a 50-year career dedicated to service to the state as chair of neurology and associate dean of rural outreach in the WVU School of Medicine.
Krystal Capers, a native of Jackson, New Jersey, earned two degrees from West Virginia University, played the clarinet for the "Pride of West Virginia," was involved with multiple student organizations and had access to transformational internships in Morgantown.
Audiologists, auctioneers and crane operators have one thing in common: they can’t legally do their jobs without licenses that create professional obstacles and hike prices, according to the West Virginia University Knee Regulatory Research Center.
Talk to West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics sophomore Naimat Khani and you’ll quickly learn that she makes things happen. A native of Nigeria and Syria, she chose WVU because of its human resources concentration, a hard program to find and one that Khani knew she wanted to pursue.
Fulfilling his passion to serve West Virginia University and his home state, Braden Adkins will don the buckskins and carry the rifle as the next Mountaineer mascot.
Many life circumstances were working against Gage Smith, a 2023 University graduate in psychology from the Martinsburg area who is now working on a master's degree in counseling in the College of Applied Human Sciences. Smith's goal is to be the kind of example for others he never had.