The West Virginia University Foundation is celebrating 70 years of private philanthropy to benefit the University and its land-grant mission including a record-breaking 2024 fiscal year that saw more than $282 million in gifts and pledges, a more than $12 million increase over the previous record set in 2021.
A “winding road” led Molly Aderholt, who was born and raised in Billings, Montana, and moved to the Washington, D.C area as a teenager, to her husband’s native state of West Virginia in 2000 to attend the West Virginia University College of Law.
West Virginia University Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker announced Sunday (Dec. 1) he had made a change in the leadership for the Mountaineer Football program, with Neal Brown’s tenure concluding after six seasons and a 37-35 overall record.
West Virginia University Police issued a Campus Warning on Tuesday (Nov. 26) following multiple burglary and larceny reports on and near the Downtown area of campus.
Euphoric. Surreal. Amazing. Those are a few of the words members of the West Virginia University “Pride of West Virginia,” the Mountaineer Marching Band, use to describe the feelings they’re associating with their appearance in the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which steps off at 8:30 a.m. Thursday (Nov. 28) in New York City.
Record-breaking donor support is empowering West Virginia University to advance education, health care and prosperity near and far. In a presentation to the WVU Board of Governors during its regular meeting Friday (Nov. 22), WVU Foundation President and CEO Cindi Roth detailed the impact of new gifts and pledges totaling more than $282 million in fiscal year 2024.
A senior executive with nearly 20 years of experience in both health care and higher education fundraising has been chosen as the new senior vice president of development and chief development officer for the West Virginia University Foundation. William J. “Will” Green will begin his new position Jan. 6.
Few people would consider giving a treat bag to the opposition, but that’s exactly what former West Virginia University Mountaineer Mascot Program Senior Advisor Sonja Wilson proposed when the University first joined the Big 12 Conference in 2012.
West Virginia University Police issued a Community Notice on Wednesday (Nov. 20) after a student was cited for illegal fireworks usage in the cooperative zone near the Downtown area of campus.
Construction is set to start in the new year on an extensive West Virginia University School of Dentistry expansion and renovation project being supported, in part, by a $12.6 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.