Archives for May 2012
May
31st
- 2012 Hall of Fame Class Revealed
- WVU-led innovation team secures patent for new process in a war on corrosion with coal-fired power plant implications
- Justin Townes Earle headlines West Virginia Public Radio's 'Mountain Stage with Larry Groce' Sunday at WVU CAC
- WVU Foundation to honor endowed scholarship, fellowship donors
May
30th
- WVU Healthcare offers new specialty service for blood cancers
- New M.S. program preps health professionals to take research from bench to bedside
- Gift to benefit WVU Eye Institute's outreach program for children
- WVU, North Elementary garden-based learning blooms with additional funding
- Latest group of McNair Scholars named to encourage pursuit of doctorates
May
29th
- Morgantown social worker honored for dedication and achievement in field of aging
- WVU Foundation honors philanthropists
- WVU Extension camping experts give advice for selecting a summer camp for your child
- WVU releases report on 2011-12 student conduct cases and violations
- Mountaineers taking a road trip to Austin city limits
May
24th
- WVU Alumni Association announces new additions to board of directors
- Former WVU linebacker Casey Vance picks up Meisel Award for academic excellence
- Kill the paperwork: WVU goes online with simpler, electronic system to facilitate the work of faculty researchers
- WVU School of Theatre & Dance invites young students to take the stage this summer with new programs
- WVU Extension Service offers online how-to guide for beginning gardeners
- WVU Sustainability program makes a class away from the classroom for students
May
23rd
- WVU HRE adviser wins NIOSH research award
- WVU HRE professor wins College's first Information Literacy Enhancement Award
- WVU students touch ancient world of politics, faith and people on Israel trip
- WVU Foundation Scholar connects elementary school to Morocco
- Student Government Association President Zach Redding represents WVU in Russia
- WVU Libraries honors three for outstanding undergraduate research
- WVU experts take new 'smart projectile' out for a spin at prestigious national proving ground
- WVU Psychology Honorary singled out for international award
- WVU Planetarium and Observatory open to the public for historic Transit of Venus
May
22nd
- WVU retiree named dietitian of the year
- Annual Summer Institute on Aging redefines and celebrates the diversity of age
- WVU School of Theatre & Dance announces Mountain State Repertory Theatre; first summer musical will be 'Putting It Together'
- WVU's Appalachian Prison Book Project forges ahead with inmate education
- 2012 Foundation Scholars welcomed to WVU
May
21st
- Former Head Football Coach Bill Stewart passes away
- Walk your way to better health at LiveWellWV kickoff walk
- 'Design Ignites Change' billboard project: High school students' designs to be displayed in their communities
- WVU College of Law students gain asylum for client, lessons from experience
- WVU professor, students refining wood as alternative fuel
May
18th
- WVU helps spread the word about benefits of trees
- Higher ed website: Two WVU blogs are 'must reads'
- WVU: State's shrinking working-age population could affect future economic growth
- WVU President Jim Clements' statement on selection of Paul Hill to lead HEPC
- HEPC approves privately-funded supplement to WVU presidential salary
May
17th
- London calling: Sarah-Anne Brault in search of Olympic berth
- WVU Extension agents uses famous feud to spark media interest, tourism
- Rebirth results in award for WVU College of Law's International Law Students Association
May
16th
- WVU engineering students earn U.S. DOE fellowships
- Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough, 'hip-hop president,' to visit WVU Student Affairs
- WVU receives in-kind software gift with a commercial value of more than $425 million
May
15th
May
14th
- WVU scientist searches for toxic triggers in pasture grasses
- WVU celebrates Bike to Work Day with prime bicycle parking
- Final steps before a new journey to be someone
- Chelsea Hodgkins honored as WVU's ninth Boren Scholar
- Three high schoolers from WVU EnvironMentors head to national fair
- WVU Press wins two Independent Publisher gold medals
- WVU to offer internationally renowned forensic accounting program in Bahrain
- WVU professor to help direct mine safety and health research fund
May
11th
- New York trip to benefit WVU Children's Hospital, Children's Miracle Network
- Walmart, Sam's Club kick off 2012 fundraising campaign for WVU Children's Hospital, Children's Miracle Network
- WVU School of Dentistry offers state high school students a chance to explore dental careers
- New website provides resources, challenges and trackers to help West Virginians improve health
- Mountaineer in Singapore: School of Journalism student finishes degree while living in Southeast Asia
- More than 4,200 WVU students graduate during weekend ceremonies
May
10th
- WVU Davis College students participate in PLANET career days
- WVU students present research at the North Central Sociological Association meeting
- WVU Davis College honors outstanding faculty
- WVU researchers study how to keep wind turbines out of eagles' flight path
- WVU's Statler College names new associate dean for research
- WVU Keyboard Festival to host internationally acclaimed artists
- WVU saxophone professor explores French music on new CD
- WVU music faculty member releases new 'Space Genetics' CD
- WVU graduate students work to revitalize Moundsville, W.Va.
- Bowfire's 'total string experience' returns to the WVU Creative Arts Center May 17
May
9th
- WVU hosts annual meeting of the Society of Appalachian Historians
- Grass guzzling bovine or efficient eater? WVU leads way in figuring it out
- WVU's Human Powered Vehicle Team finishes seventh in international competition
- No backyard brawling at this fair!
- WVU hosts geographical information systems conference
- Through the looking glass
- L.G. Corder spent years in and out of military service before graduating with law degree from WVU
May
7th
- New Big 12 Commissioner Bowlsby to promote unity
- WVU Foundation announces creation of endowed fund in pain and palliative medicine
- New study examines role of intimate partner violence in workplace homicides among U.S. women
- Melissa Latimer: helping advance the cause of women in science
- College of Human Resources and Education hosts WVU Summer Talented and Gifted Workshops
- West Virginia Physical Activity Plan featured at national conference on obesity prevention
- They look good! Then and now!
May
4th
- Watts Museum awarded grant from state Humanities Council to support outreach to seniors
- New WVU Center for Arts Professionals to offer summer seminars
- Student Association of Public Administrators wins WVU Student Organization of the Year
- WVU's PRT summer shutdown begins May 7
- WVU engineering team, 'Hammerhead,' don't disappoint at national competition
- Assessing her time in Morgantown at WVU
- Saudi Arabian student Sultan Attiah finds snow, second home at WVU
- Heasley, Kecojevic named to distinguished professorships at WVU
May
3rd
- WVU bestows Order of Vandalia honor on four who have given of themselves
- WVU moves into fourth year of student research enhancement program
- The National Academies and WVU: A marriage made in research
- WVU student Samantha Hess proves women can be engineers
- Amadou Toure calls WVU 'one of the greatest experiences I've ever had'
May
2nd
- Governor proclaims Wednesday "CITeR day in West Virginia"
- WVU Libraries show the impact of professors and librarians working together
- WVU offers training to those caring for dementia patients
- Dr. Giovanni Piedimonte appointed as Cleveland Clinic chair
- WVU journalism student receives Young Botanist Award from the Botanical Society of America
- WVU expert available to speak on one-year anniversary of military strike against Osama bin Laden
- Fayette County natives to be inducted into WV Coal Hall of Fame
- Mountaineer Mascot Brock Burwell takes a farewell tour of WVU
- Amadou Toure bleeds gold and blue after experience at WVU
May
1st
- WVU professor's book reveals history of African-American big band music in West Virginia
- Leonard Colelli appointed campus provost for Potomac State College of WVU
- Keep up with WVU Evansdale expansion on the Web, Twitter
- WVU Art Museum directors present paper at national conference
- WVU runner Ahna Lewis' journey helped her turn from student to teacher
- Memories are made here: WVU launches website celebrating Class of 2012