Archives for October 2012
October
31st
- 2012 Mountaineer Idol to be crowned on Sunday
- WVU McNair Scholars Program recruiting for 2013 internships
- 'Most Loyals' selected for Mountaineer Week at WVU
- West Virginia Business Plan Competition part of Global Entrepreneurship Week
October
30th
- WVU Festival of Ideas speaker to shine spotlight on gay rights
- UCLA nanobiology researcher to headline NanoSAFE fall speaker program at WVU
- WVU professor studies linkages between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease
- Putting Einstein to the test: WVU professor could prove near century-old theory true
- WVU energy research grant used to examine natural gas drilling
- WVU researcher awarded $2.19 million in NIH grants for lung cancer studies
- Colenda to chair national medical school group
- Taziki's WVU partners with ag school on Food Allergens Project
- Watch for updates on cancellations and warnings in Sandy's wake
October
29th
- WVU faculty members recognized for international contributions in sport and exercise psychology
- WVU professor's research aims to make energy exploration and resource mining more efficient
- WVU Puskar Leadership Scholars honor benefactor and philanthropist Milan Puskar
- WVU's Nov. 3 halftime show to feature Steinway event with Doc Miltenberger
- WVU, DoD events postponed
- WVU lecture by Jeff Bach canceled due to storm
- WVU Rush Holt Lecture rescheduled for December due to Sandy
- WVU to host business plan competition focusing on alternative energy
October
26th
- Team from Summersville Middle School wins 25th annual Pumpkin Drop
- WVU working on alternatives for Monongahela Boulevard Parking
- WVU professor researches cleft lip and palate birth defects
- WVU music professor among featured authors at WV Book Festival
- WVU's Water Research Institute expands monitoring program to Ohio and Allegheny rivers
- WVU now accepting nominations for Order of Vandalia
- Loan exit counseling required for all WVU students not returning in the spring
- Carey: Big 12 will be learning experience
- New Steinway piano arrives at WVU Creative Arts Center
- WVU Press publishes Centerville by Karen Osborn
- WVU engages in public-private partnership to develop a $70 million mixed use residential and retail complex in Sunnyside
October
25th
- WVU students compete in Mountaineer Week Challenge
- Celebrate American Archives Month at WVU's West Virginia & Regional History Collection
- WVU alumnus creates endowment in honor of mentor
- New WVU scholarship honors late alum's passion for outdoors
- WVU professor recognized for excellence in agricultural education
- Kilicli: WVU to speed things up this year
- WVU three-part concert series will celebrate 100th anniversary of composer Benjamin Britten
- WVU scholars program to introduce 'The Art of the Meal'
- WVU English professor to give reading
- WVU English professor to be featured on world's most popular poetry website
- Entrepreneur/philanthropist Purdy in B&E Distinguished Speaker Series Nov. 8
October
24th
- Tri-state singing competition to take place Oct. 27 at WVU
- WVU Laureate Wind Quartet to perform at the CAC Oct. 30
- Mountaineer Week hosts annual quilt show
- Guest artist from Brazil to present pipe organ recital at CAC Oct. 27
- WVU Men's Basketball: Our History
- WVU community can still sign up for Saturday's Mountaineers Run United
- Mountaineer Week offers annual photo scavenger hunt
- 'Voices of Appalachia' to go on sale on Oct. 27
- Mountaineer Week 2012 presents Family Fun Day
- WV Redevelopment Collaborative offers service learning opportunity for faculty experts
- WVU student-veterans to 'speak out' Oct. 30 at Clear Mountain Bank
- WVU program awarded top prize by national economic development organization
- WVU CPASS faculty members: local rail trails worthy investment for communities
- WVU Choral Program presents organ and choir concert Oct. 28
- College of Creative Arts to hold open house for prospective students Nov. 10
- WVU Mortar Board chapter receives national award
- WVU business school, two faculty recognized by international organization
October
23rd
- Sanghavi Family endows Scholarship in WVU's Statler College
- WVU celebrates National Campus Sustainability Day on Oct. 24
- Gym Class Heroes and Kendrick Lamar canceled; Kendrick Lamar rescheduled for Nov. 2 at Metropolitan Theatre
- Women's soccer captures first Big 12 title
- WVU awarded $400K to help create healthier rural communities
- Historic award to support WVU Nursing scholars
- WVU Children's Hospital receives gift from unlikely donor
- WVU Police seek information regarding stolen keyboards
- Award-winning photographer and videographer to bring unique view of military life to WVU
- Mountaineer Week's second annual WVU Ghost Tour scheduled for Oct. 29
- 2012 Mountaineer Week celebrates Appalachian heritage, Mountaineer Mascot
October
22nd
- Search committee tapped to find new WVU Libraries dean
- WVU releases 2013 May Commencement schedule
- WVU celebrates Fulbright Scholars, hosts workshop on Nov. 14
- Donors contribute $569 million to WVU's 'State of Minds' campaign through Sept. 30
- WVU PRSSA hosts Duckbrand Challenge tailgate for TCU football game
- WVU to celebrate 25th annual Pumpkin Drop Oct. 26
- WVU home football games generate more than $11 million for Mon County economy
October
19th
- WVU speaker address religious views of early W.Va. settlers
- WVU chemists discover new pathways by researching how things work on a molecular level
October
18th
- WVU Healthcare patients notified of FDA recall
- WVU School of Theatre & Dance presents comedy, 'Lend Me a Tenor' Oct. 25-28
- DOE energy storage expert to help WVU kick-off new research initiative
- Leaders in healthcare, global consulting, energy named to West Virginia Business Hall of Fame
- WVU University Police Chief Bob Roberts reminds fans to act responsibility
- WVU Percussion Ensemble unites with drumline for annual fall concert
- WVU School of Art & Design presents first juried student exhibition
- Donors contribute record $103K to WVU Foundation's 2012 Pride Travel Fund
- Texan who joined Mountaineer family through liver transplant to visit WVU
October
17th
- Coca-Cola Gold Rush rally towel design contest
- Morgantown Community Orchestra presents chamber concert Oct. 21
- Music faculty to perform piano, violin, flute recital
- Faculty piano quartet to perform Oct. 23
- Guest artists to perform recital based on works of Edgar Allan Poe
- WV Law Review examines the topic of child protection
- WVU breaks ground on new CPASS, Student Health and Wellness facilities
- Private industry representatives reviewed WVU student engineering research at successful LIINC event
October
16th
- Energy production to be focus of annual West Virginia Water Research Conference
- University Police encourages WVU community participation in ShakeOut
- WVU faculty member to lead international sport and exercise psychology group
- U92-FM's 'The Morgantown Sound' nominated for College Radio Award
- WVU chemists among first to recreate theoretical process that could lead to a better understanding of the brain
- WVU plans Friday bell-ringing ceremony
- West Virginia business plan competition: 20 finalists, five different schools
October
15th
- Huggins: Big 12 hoops a grind
- Poison Center director selected for national award
- WVU's Global Health Week begins Oct. 22
- WVU Pharmacy graduate student receives prestigious travel award
- WVU political scientist, debate coach Neil Berch available to discuss presidential debate
- President of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond to speak at WVU event Nov. 15
- Vote12 encourages WVU student participation in elections
October
12th
- Flashlights light the stage in WVU student play opening at the Creative Arts Center
- WVU professor says CyberWar is not a question of if but of when
- WVU Extension Diabetes Symposium to raise awareness for preventing diabetes-related diseases
- WVU professor named co-chair of national council dedicated to gender equity in education
- WVU Athletic Director Oliver Luck's employment agreement amended
- Huggins likes his '12-13 team
- WVU hosts delegation to explore research in Brazil
- WVU 'TromboneMania' concert to be held Oct. 14
- WVU professor researches justice strategies for conflict resolution
- WVU professor and student aim to heal scars of young burn patients
- WVU President Clements highlights milestone year in annual address
- National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon to give reading at WVU as Sturm Writer-in-Residence
- WVU New Music Concert will feature guest artist Lee Weisert
- WVU Jazz Ensembles to perform Oct. 15 at CAC
- WVU Flute Studio hosts Fall Flute Fling Oct. 14
October
11th
- Public invited to WVU Night at the Pittsburgh Symphony
- WVU's Clements chairing ACE Commission on Leadership
- 2012 WVU Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer finalists announced
- Martina McBride concert at WVU CAC rescheduled due to home football conflict
- WVU United Way campaign nears midpoint, almost halfway to $330,000 goal
- West Virginia business plan competition shatters record number of entries
- WVU Chamber Winds to give concert Oct. 16
October
10th
- Love of running helps bond family
- WVU political scientist, debate coach Neil Berch available to discuss VP debate
- WVU, City officials unite: 'Stop the dangerous, destructive behavior'
- WVU Healthcare nurses awarded with honor
- WVU study: Exposure to air pollution particles at mountaintop mining sites may lead to cardiovascular dysfunction
- National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey coming to WVU Mountainlair
- WVU's Trunk-or-Treat provides safe Halloween activity for children
October
9th
- Founder of WVU women's studies to read from memoir for Mountaineer Week
- WVU's Eberly College honors outstanding alumni with Departmental Alumni Awards
- Triana Energy CEO Harmon to speak at WVU Oct. 23
- Guest speakers from peer universities to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship at WVU
- WVU's Diversity Week to include first Morgantown International Festival and 25th Women of Color Luncheon
- WVU's College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences names outstanding alumnus, inducts 5 into Hall of Fame
October
8th
- WVU President Jim Clements reports on a milestone year; promises strong action in wake of "inexcusable" behavior
- WVU student designs new University parking permits
- Sculpture alumna to present lecture & blacksmithing demonstration
- Livestock training from WVU Extension Service available for adults and youths
- Alum creates fellowship for WVU graduate student
- Symposium to highlight WVU's international research
- WVU Festival of Ideas brings cancer doctor to discuss 'The End of Illness'
October
7th
October
5th
- Compulsive Smith always improving
- Former NCAA football captain to present issues on bullying, LGBT rights
- WVU Cancer Center's Dr. Jame Abraham to lead a national research study on breast cancer
- WVU dental student chosen to be National Health Service Corps Scholar
- WVU names finalists for School of Public Health dean
- Trombonist Amanda Davidson to present guest artist recital, master class at WVU
- WVU Outdoor Recreation Center offers a winter break trip to National Parks in Texas, New Mexico
- WVU music faculty Weigand & Miltenberger present recital Oct. 7
- WVU organ professor to present recital at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
- WVU Oboe Studio to present recital
- WVU Wind Symphony opens 2012-13 season with Oct. 9 concert
- U.S. invests $2.5 million in Job Accommodation Network at WVU
- WVU names 2012 Student Affairs Hall of Fame, Outstanding Achievement Award winners
- Native American Studies holds 20th Anniversary Peace Tree Ceremony
- WVU part of nationwide coalition endeavoring to increase number of U.S. college degrees by 3.8 million
- Stan Gould voted WVU's Ultimate Mountaineer Fan
October
4th
- The Jackson Browne performance at the WVU CAC on Oct. 15 has sold out
- WVU PRSSA to host Pittsburgh Penguins PR team
- Forbes: WVU among nation's top "Best Buy Colleges"
October
3rd
- Morgantown named Top 10 College Town in AIER College Destination Index
- WVU dentistry and business schools collaborate for new D.D.S./M.B.A. degree
- Proud, passionate WVU fans vie for Ultimate Mountaineer Fan title
- New exhibitions open at WVU's Mesaros Galleries Oct. 11
- Curiosity nurtured at WVU lands on Mars
- WVU to host lecture by Canterbury conservator on Oct. 8
- WVU Davis College hosts agricultural research leader Caird Rexroad
October
2nd
- WVU Mine Training Academy to host Murray Energy fire brigade competition
- Canadian lawyer, author to speak at WVU College of Law
- WVU School of Dentistry opens new simulation lab
- WVU's Gu to study safety of new-generation aircraft
- WVU grad students awarded first Ruby Fellowships for innovative doctoral work
October
1st
- Thank You Mountaineer Fans!
- Mullett named Loyal West Virginia Physician
- Healthcare contributions recognized through American Pharmacists Month
- Mountaineer Parents Club, Mountaineer Maniacs host WVU/Texas game watch party
- WVU testing emergency alert system today
- WVU art students help create memorial for canine heroes of 9/11
- Breaking Through: Popular Mechanics honors WVU's Bomkamp with innovator award
- WVU saxophone student selected to compete in international competition
- WVU voice professor Hope Koehler to debut at Carnegie Hall Oct. 9
- WVU and local charity to screen documentary on empowering girls and women
- Mountaineer Parents Club hosts WVU families during Fall Family Weekend