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A graphic showing a blue graduation tassel with a Flying WVU coin attached. The words: Go Above, Go Beyond are in gold above a logo for the annual WVU Day of Giving. The URL for the Day of Giving website is below that.
An illustration showing a person from behind presumably seated at a desk with a white coffee mug to their right and dozens of overlapping icons in the space above their head depicting the feeling of ADHD.
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Eight photos of WVU graduate students are lined up in two rows.

Eight WVU graduate students receive Foundation scholarships to support research

The selected West Virginia University graduate students from across the U.S. and beyond are engaging in meaningful research as they complete their degrees with support from WVU Foundation scholarships. The awards help students defray costs and support the completion of their theses or dissertations.

A window with a white Flying WVU sticker on it is shown here with a peek through the blinds into a room where people are working.
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.
A patient is shown on a hospital bed in front of a larger machine with seven medical professionals watching during a new kind of Alzheimer's treatment.
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.

The Downtown Campus, including Woodburn Hall and Hodges Hall, are shown surrounded by fall colors.

New majors, medical breakthrough signal success for WVU

More than ever, the University is keenly focused on the modern land-grant priorities outlined in President Gordon Gee's recent State of the University address such as advancing the WVU R1 mission to deliver solutions to real-world problems and growing the academic medical center to improve people’s health.

A doctor dressed in a white lab coat holds capsules in his left hand and a pencil in his right hand

Early WVU research shows ingestible ‘smart pill’ may detect signs of overdose

In a potential breakthrough for those suffering with opioid use disorder, the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute announced a first-in-human study using an innovative smart pill technology to measure and monitor vital signs that can help identify early indications of an overdose.