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Graphic illustrating information about the 2023 WVU Day of Giving that will be held on March 22. The graphic is blue with white words and a gold flying WV.

Sixth WVU Day of Giving slated for March 22

During the event, West Virginia University will invite alumni, friends and students to collectively make a difference and support the University’s land-grant mission.

Low-laying clouds and dog sit between rolling green West Virginia mountains
A student with short, curly dark hair stands in the rotunda of the State Capitol wearing a dark suit. To his left side is a research poster. A person with long brown hair stands with a back to the camera and listens.

WVU student researchers and lawmakers come together at Capitol

Undergraduate researchers from West Virginia University connected with policymakers at the Capitol in Charleston Friday (Feb. 10), providing an overview of the important work being done in dental care, mental health and substance use, and children’s health care during Undergraduate Research Day.

Image showing an outdoor yellow bench on a sidewalk. There is green grass behind it. The toll free number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is printed on the bench in black letters.
Image of volunteers working together to build a trail in Morgantown, West Virginia. There are five volunteers in the picture four men and one woman. There is a dazzling sunrise in the sky above them.

Working in service: WVU acts as community development catalyst

From building up outdoor recreation throughout the state, to crunching vital numbers for its small communities, to exploring ways small businesses can best market their goods and services, West Virginia University is serving as a community development catalyst in real time and making significant change at ground levels.

An image of a female, from the neck down, wearing a white t-shirt holding an infant wrapped in a multi-colored blanket and wearing a pink knitted hat.
Picture taken at annual Bob Huggins Fishy Fry. In the picture. Huggins, wearing jeans, a gray sweater and a green baseball hat, sits to the left of famous basketball player Charles Barkley who is holding a microphone and talking. He is wearing a gray suit
This is a photo of a classroom. On the left, University President Gordon Gee sits with an open book. On the right, more than half a dozen students listen to him. A couple of billboards are along the far wall.

Working in service: WVU embedded in fabric of West Virginia communities

In West Virginia’s hills and hollows, its larger cities along interstates and smaller communities on country roads, at ground levels and from broader 365-degree views, West Virginia University students, faculty and staff are working each day in service to the Mountain State.

Dana Coester and Joel Beeson,pictured here in discussion across a table and looking at papers. Have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to explore voting rights and engage young people in democratic processes throughout Appalachia.
Mohammed Mustafa Hussain runs a power grid simulation at the WVU Engineering Research Building. The room is full of computer modules and the graduate student is seated in a rolling chair wearing a dark shirt and blue jean shorts.