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A busload of prospective West Virginia University students and their families got a bow-tied surprise during a recent tour of campus.

For 10 years, geology students at West Virginia University have accessed the same software used by oil and gas companies worldwide, expanding their marketability for industry jobs. Schlumberger, the world’s leading technology developer for the oil and gas industry, has furthered this access through an in-kind gift of their Petrel Geology and Modeling software to the Department of Geology and Geography. The software is commercially valued at $53 million.

In support of the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics’ vision to not only educate students about the world of business, but also shape them into generous corporate citizens, the Enterprise Holdings Foundation made a generous gift of $20,000 to the Corporate Citizenship Project within the B&E Corporate Social Responsibility course.

Dr. Ronald V. Iannone, faculty emeritus of the West Virginia University College of Education and Human Services, recently established the Ron V. Iannone and Family Keynote Speaker Endowment.

When West Virginia University alumnus Emery L. Prunty passed away in January 2016, the West Virginia agricultural community lost an invaluable educator and advocate.

G. Robert “Bob” Nugent, M.D., one of the nation’s most respected neurosurgeons and a former physician for West Virginia University’s football team, spent 43 seasons tending to the medical needs of Mountaineer football players and was one of the first neurosurgeons to treat patients in what was then the new University Hospital, now the WVU Health Sciences Center.

Student inventors and entrepreneurs in the state will soon benefit from a $105,000 grant to a law clinic at West Virginia University. The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation awarded the grant to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Law Clinic at the WVU College of Law.

Former Mountaineer football players Don Barclay and Keith Tandy had All-American playing careers while at West Virginia, leading their alma mater to many victories on the field, conference championships and bowl wins before finishing their college careers.

Non-traditional-aged, undergraduate West Virginia University students have the opportunity to receive scholarship funding through the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program, supported by the Bernard Osher Foundation.

West Virginia University announced today (Feb. 10) that Bob and Laura Reynolds are giving $10 million to the WVU College of Business and Economics. The gift will provide initial funding for a building in their names at a new business school complex on Morgantown’s waterfront, as well as propel other academic components of business education at B&E.