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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 photograph showing the football field at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. All the seating is University of North Carolina Tarheel blue and the end zone is painted with the words West Virginia.
The Downtown Library, Wise Library is shown from the front of the building. A blue sign in the foreground serves as a locator.
Photograph of WVU employee Mary Veselicky. She is standing in the lobby of the WVU Health Science buildings with three large white marble columns in the background. She is wearing red reindeer antlers and a festive apron.

WVU employee helps decorate White House for holidays

This holiday season, the work of a West Virginia University employee is on display at the White House. Mary Veselicky, a program assistant in the WVU School of Dentistry Department of Periodontics, had the opportunity to spread Mountaineer spirit and Christmas cheer as a volunteer decorator.

An illustration showing an orange habanero pepper diagram and the pepper's genetic double helix on a computer screen that is sitting on top of a brown, wooden desk.
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.
This is a blue graphic with Duke's Mayo Bowl on the right and a gold Flying WV on the left.
A white life preserver from the USS West Virginia is mounted in a clear frame on a wall.

Kendrick family donates Pearl Harbor artifact to WVU Libraries

West Virginia University will house a lasting reminder of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in the form of a life preserver from the USS West Virginia, a gift to the West Virginia and Regional History Center at WVU Libraries from the Kendrick family.