College of Creative Arts

West Virginia University students will bring the story of the playful parrot, Papagayo, to life for hundreds of West Virginia children in April.

Hundreds of West Virginia 4-H’ers and West Virginia University Extension Service representatives will travel to the State Capitol on Tuesday, March 28 to explore opportunities at West Virginia University, meet with legislators and celebrate WVU’s 150th birthday at WVU Day at the Legislature.

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.

Wikipedia is calling on people around the world to celebrate Women’s History Month by participating in one of the many edit-a-thons planned throughout March. Locally, West Virginia University Libraries, the WVU Art Museum and Arts Mon will co-host an Art + Feminism edit-a-thon on March 15 from 12:30-4:30 p.m. at the WVU Art Museum’s Great Hall.

West Virginia University student musicians will debut at New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall in March.

Manchester Bidwell Corporation's president and chief operating officer Bill Strickland is this year's Deem Distinguished Lecture speaker. Strickland will speak about making the impossible possible at 5 p.m. March 2 in Bloch Learning and Performance Hall at the Creative Arts Center. Strickland helped redefine Pittsburgh after the steel industry declined.

The sound of music is, in its simplest form, the sound of fractions. Students in the West Virginia University School of Music showed Suncrest Elementary School fourth graders that correlation.

While West Virginia University remains financially stable, it faces future challenges with continued reductions in state revenue, limited ability and desire to increase tuition and competition from other institutions, the Board of Governors was told Friday (Feb. 10).

As conversion of text, pictures and sounds into digital form continues to develop, anxiety runs high in the art community about the future of physical appreciation of the arts. These anxieties are being confronted by Amy Schissel, assistant professor of painting in the School of Art & Design at the College Creative Arts at West Virginia University.