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Logan Cuvo is many things — a Mountaineer, an entrepreneur, a visionary and a CEO. But if you ask him, he’ll tell you, simply, that he’s blessed. The senior from Columbus, Ohio, is an entrepreneurship and innovation major at the West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics. He’s also the founder and leader of Best Dam Tape, a company born of his love of hockey and his desire to improve the performance of athletic tape.

As a winter storm continues to affect the region, West Virginia University is canceling all in-person classes, closing on-campus operations and shifting most employees to remote work for the Morgantown Campus on Monday (Jan. 26).

West Virginia University has released its Fall 2025 Dean’s and President’s lists, as well as the full list of graduates for the fall semester.

West Virginia University will soon offer nursing students a new pathway for focusing on community nursing, allowing them to make a difference outside the hospital setting by improving access to care and promoting wellness in schools, homes, health departments and elsewhere.

In Mike Strager’s classroom at West Virginia University, maps aren’t just for spatial reference — they’re used to generate ideas. A professor in the WVU Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources who is involved in the Environmental, Energy, and Land Management program, Strager stresses how locations and their attributes work together to guide the decisions that shape communities, resources and landscapes.

In-person classes on the West Virginia University Morgantown Campus will start later Thursday (Jan. 15) due to forecasted cold and icy conditions. All in-person classes scheduled to begin before 9:30 a.m. are canceled. Online classes will continue as scheduled. The delayed start will not affect campus operations.

If you’ve seen Charles Wesley Godwin’s live show, you’ve heard Ross Justice. As front-of-house engineer and production manager, the West Virginia University alum and Music Business and Industry program faculty member is the conduit between the band’s onstage energy and what the audience feels in the room.

Following a national search focused on the academic future of West Virginia University, President Michael T. Benson is announcing the hiring of Beverly Wendland, an accomplished scholar and academic leader with wide-ranging higher education experience, to serve as the University’s provost and vice president for academic affairs.

A distinguished cohort of four West Virginia University graduates will be inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni in recognition of their groundbreaking achievements in business, communications and education. They are Michael J. Florio, Nitin N. Kumbhani, Mary Ellen Mazey and Morris Morrison.

West Virginia University professor Sam Zizzi, whose research wheelhouse encompasses motivation and health behavior change, says the motivation to start something new — like a New Year’s resolution — is not the same motivation that’s required to keep it going.