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This photo features a young girl dressed in pink with blond hair examining a clear plastic tube that is taller than her at the WVU Day at the Legislature. Other kids are shown in the background visiting tables and display in the Capitol rotunda.

WVU Day at the Legislature showcases youth, family programs

The 2023 WVU Day at the Legislature is an opportunity to celebrate University connections. Faculty, staff, students, volunteers, young people and families will be on hand from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Capitol in Charleston for the event.

A group of WVU graduates dressed in their navy blue caps and gowns celebrates together during fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies. There numerous people in the photograph with three women and three men in sharp focus.
Composition of two headshots, one of Veronique Vernot and another of Rodney Williams. The pictures are situated side by side. Vernot is wearing a dark red dress and has her arms crossed. Williams has a long black bear and is wearing an olive jacket.
Two young women wearing white lab coats and black gloves work together in the WVU Biomedical Research Center. They are doing experiments with test tubes and other lab equipment.
Four graduates are lined up with their armed links. One is wearing a gold gown. The others are in navy blue gowns. They are looking up and to the left and smiling.

Gee tells newest WVU graduates success comes from knowing themselves

More than 2,600 West Virginia University graduates participating in two Commencement ceremonies today (Dec. 17) were encouraged to hold fast to values forged as Mountaineers and tap into their unique strengths to live successful lives fueled by purpose.

This is the exterior of a lactation pod available to parents at the WVU Coliseum. The pod is round on the sides and flat on the top and bottom with gold and blue flowers on the front where an access door is located.
Headshot of T. Ramon Stuart, the new president of WV Institute of Tech. Gold is standing with his hands crossed on a chair. He is wearing a dark colored suit and a gold tie. He is a Black man with short hair, and is smiling slightly in the photo.

West Virginia native returns home to serve as WVU Tech campus president

A West Virginia University graduate and accomplished university administrator, including as a president and provost, will return to the Mountain State as the next campus president at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. T. Ramon Stuart, originally from Welch, begins in this role on Jan. 1.

WVU alumna Choalu Chen is pictured here standing over the Cooper's Rock overlook. She is carrying a black purse and is wearing khaki pants with a navy blue coat. She has short, black hair.

Childhood challenges inspire WVU grad’s lifelong commitment to education

Chaolu Chen grew up in the rural rice fields of China but set her eyes on a brighter future that brought her all the way to WVU as a graduate student in the 1980s. Over the past year, she has contributed $115,000 to benefit the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences and the WVU Alumni Association, helping study abroad students and graduate students in the history program.

This is a portrait of Bill Sheedy that is on a blue background. Sheedy has short gray hair and is smiling while sitting in front of a white backdrop. He is wearing a blue button up shirt and dark gray suit jacket.
Ken Gosnell sits with a black jacket and blue button up while his daughter Devon Gosnell has on a black sweater of a floral designed shirt.

$1M planned gift builds upon Gosnell family legacy at WVU

Devon Gosnell, of Germantown, Tennessee, pledged $1 million of her estate to support scholarships and more at the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, College of Law and Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.