Skip to main content

Graduate Education

A graphic with the headshot of WVU Professor DeClerico on the left and the words $1 million in gold on the right. There is some small text below the number.

More than $1M gift from WVU Eberly College professor establishes community lectureship

A beloved West Virginia University professor is expanding educational opportunities for students, faculty, staff and the greater Morgantown community via a planned gift of over $1 million to support a lecture focused on political leadership and democratic institutions. Professor Emeritus Robert E. DiClerico retired from the Department of Political Science in 2017.

A student slouches in a char with the back of their head barely reaching a window. They are holding a blue iPhone in two hands that is almost entirely hiding their face.
An image showing a WVU professor wearing a virtual reality headset and holding controllers while what he is seeing is displayed on a television screen on the wall to his left.
A WVU graduate holds a blue diploma folder above their head while wearing a navy blue graduation gown.
Three people are shown working on a robotics body with four black wheels on it in a lab. One person is in a gray sweatshirt with WVU on it.

WVU to launch robotics engineering major

Students interested in the rapidly evolving world of robotics will now be able to enroll in a new robotics engineering major at West Virginia University following approval by the Board of Governors during a meeting Friday (Dec. 15).

A person works in a lab. An arm is in the frame holding a large syringe that is being used to inject something into a piece of lab equipment. The stainless steel table top is covered with a variety of lab equipment.
An illustration showing people sitting in rows at computers in a computer lab. There is a world map on the wall in front of them.

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.

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 blue and black hammock stretched out in front of a brick building holds two students. One is working on a laptop.

With investments in student success, WVU retention, graduation rates climb

A dual focus on purpose and student success programming is helping fuel improved retention and graduation rates at West Virginia University. This year, the University is seeing its second highest freshman retention in history — 81.4% — along with its highest four-year graduation rate on record, reflecting a jump of 14% during the past eight years.

A photograph of Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer pictured against a black background with swirling light effects, much like the afterglow from sparklers, in the foreground.