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WVU launches esports major to help provide workforce for expanding industry

With a focus on educating students for industries of the future, West Virginia University is now offering an esports bachelor’s degree, preparing students for careers in the rapidly growing esports industry while building on the University’s already successful competitive esports program.

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WVU to establish innovative cybersecurity education, training facility

With the ongoing threat of cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, West Virginia University is launching plans for a cybersecurity range — a specialized software and hardware facility for education, training and research — with $750,000 in grant funding support from the U.S. Department of Education.

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Photograph of the main building at WVU Jackson's Mill. The light colored brick building features multiple dormers on the roofline as well as a portico in the middle. There is a grist mill stone in the foreground of the photograph.

WVU Jackson’s Mill receives gift of free internet from Frontier

The holidays are arriving early at West Virginia University Jackson’s Mill. On Giving Tuesday (Nov. 28), Frontier Communications announced the company will donate high-speed fiber internet service to the Mill to improve educational and programming activities for youth, guests and the greater community.

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Photograph of Stewart Hall on the WVU Morgantown Campus in the fall. There are fallen leaves of orange and gold on the ground and still a few hanging in the trees in front of the gray brick building.
Ethan Reese is shown in a green shirt and long dark sleeves on the left of the frame holding his winning essay. His mom, in a gray sweatshirt with green trees, holds a microphone in front of a banner for the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree.
A photograph of the Green Bank telescope in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The huge telescope is seen in the photograph set against a pale blue sky full of white clouds, a second telescope in the distance, and rows of green trees.
A photograph of several WVU interns standing in front of the huge, white Nemacolin resort.
A photograph of a forest in fall with the leaves changing to bright yellow and with the forest floor littered with already fallen leaves.

Core family estate gifts strengthen nature, history resources at WVU

A late relative of longtime West Virginia University biology professor and local historian Earl L. Core is providing more than $1.8 million to support the study of nature and history in his memory. The gift has been divided to benefit WVU Libraries and the Core Arboretum, a public nature preserve that Core helped establish during his 44 years at the University.