With a $1.3 million Science Education Partnership Award, the Health Sciences and Technology Academy — based at WVU Health Sciences — will implement an outreach project over the next five years to train HSTA students to work with middle schoolers on community-based participatory research.
An altruistic mentor to fraternity members, a posthumous inductee influential in improving the dining experience across campus and a licensed social worker devoted to helping students in recovery will be honored for their outstanding contributions to West Virginia University.
Future geologists and engineers studying at West Virginia University are using the same advanced software as oil and natural gas professionals thanks to an in-kind gift from Petroleum Experts Limited worth nearly $6.4 million.
As the West Virginia University Police Department continues to focus on community policing, the latest Clery Act report shows declines in campus drug and alcohol arrests and citations, but increases in reports of some other crimes.
A three-year project based at the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will look at “BEST” programs, those which support engineering majors in building the skills they need to succeed, but often struggle to recruit students from underserved communities.
A researcher in the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is working to access remote ocean waters using multiple marine robots, carried and coordinated by an intelligent mothership, which can then communicate what they learn.
West Virginia University will hold a bell-ringing ceremony, coordinated by the Office of Campus and Community Life and Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, on Friday (Sept. 29) in remembrance of Elizabeth O'Leary, Patrick Van Kirk and Brady Zelmore.
Reaffirming the commitment from West Virginia University to its land-grant mission, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has designated WVU as an “Innovation and Economic Prosperity University,” recognition that will help the University maximize its impact across West Virginia and beyond its borders.
The new offering from the West Virginia University School of Dentistry will support the University’s land-grant mission to advance education and health care in the Mountain State by expanding the reach of specialized dentists to its youngest residents.
West Virginia University announced recommendations Wednesday (Sept. 20) aimed at creating a more focused and cost-efficient suite of academic support services to assist colleges and schools while better serving students’ needs. Separate from the recent Academic Program Portfolio Review, an evaluation of the 20 ASUs in the Provost’s Office began in May.