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Milan Puskar Foundation gives $1M to WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital

The contribution supports the “Grow Children’s” capital campaign, which seeks to raise $60 million for a new children’s hospital to provide comprehensive healthcare services for kids and families within a dedicated state-of-the-art facility. The 150-bed, nine-story hospital is under construction next to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, which houses existing WVU Medicine Children’s services on its sixth floor.

An ‘awesome’ library makeover took place Monday in Morgantown

The Big 12 Conference, in partnership with the College Football Playoff Foundation and Lakeshore Learning Materials, unveiled its Mountainview Elementary School library makeover Monday morning (Feb. 24). Through a $50,000 grant from the College Football Foundation's Extra Yard for Teachers initiative, Mountainview's library has undergone its first renovation since the school opened nearly 30 years ago.

Gee Mail: Spreading kindness like confetti

West Virginia University President Gordon Gee wants to start a “revolution of benevolence.” In this Gee Mail, our bowtie-wearing president embraces Random Acts of Kindness Month by shouting niceties to passersby, handing out cookies and issuing kinder, gentler parking violations.

WVU’s Stratford supports proposal to alter NCAA men’s soccer season

In April, the NCAA is going to vote on a proposal Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski has been working on for the better part of seven years to change Division I men's soccer from a three-month season in the fall to one that spans the fall and spring semesters of an academic year.