Archives for June 2015

• WVU English professor to study history of the Mountaineer
• WVU to participate in EducationUSA forum on internationalizing U.S. college campuses
• WVU University Police encourage planning and patience during University Avenue construction and improvement project, detour planned
• McConnell names Almasy dean of Eberly College for his last day in office to honor his service to university as a five-time interim dean
• Mountain State Business Index continues slide with fifth consecutive decrease

• WVU Herbarium adding Appalachian regional plants to international databases
• WVU Boxing Club president brings home USBA national championship
• WVU Extension Service to host two 'forced pooling' educational sessions
• WVU CPASS doctoral student ready to inspire in classroom
• PROMISE, Higher Education Grant Program recipients and health professionals are more likely to stay in state after graduation according to WVU study
• West Virginia University experts offer commentary on Food and Drug Administration's trans fat ban

• EcoCAR 3 team brings home competition awards
• Nominations for West Virginia Business Hall of Fame are open through July 31
• WVU field laboratory begins monitoring shale gas well activity

• Award-winning journalist Nancy Andrews brings innovative talents to WVU
• PROJECT ME: WVU student forges a future in Fashion Merchandising
• WVU collaborative classroom wins national award
• WVU Libraries partners with Wikimedia foundation to create first Wikipedian-in-Residence to focus on gender gap
• WVU individuals available to discuss historic court decisions
• WVU College of Media dean elected to lead national journalism education association
• WVU School of Medicine M.D. program receives eight-year reaccreditation

• Public invited to free jazz, classical concerts during WVU Keyboard Festival
• Joint statement regarding WVRC, WVU settlement
• Day-Perroots named associate provost for undergraduate academic affairs at West Virginia University
• WVU's School of Public Health receives national accreditation

• New scholarship honors pioneering WVU faculty members
• WVU professors to tackle wearable technology as they co-edit April 2016 Rhetoric Society Quarterly journal
• Myers named to McConnell Chair in speech communication
• WVU professor to bring prison stories out of confinement
• 2015 class of McNair Scholars announced

• WVU announces spring 2015 Dean's, President's, Graduation lists
• Farm-to-table efforts earn WVU student a national scholarship
• Stamatakis named interim dean of Pharmacy

• WVU Press and Morgantown Writers Group host authors at joint reading
• WVU Press publishes first book of its kind that examines attitudes toward stuttering
• President Gee named "Outstanding West Virginian;" WVU earns other honors at 2015 PRSA state chapter awards
• WVU's economic impact on NCWV in excess of $3.6 billion, study shows
• West Virginia's 152nd birthday celebrated at WVU with annual Blenko Glass gift
• WVU mathematics professor named Bolton Professor
• Flaherty, Wilmoth, Lewis elected to one-year terms to lead WVU BOG
• Wyrick named associate dean for academic affairs at WVU's Statler College
• WVU Art Museum now has complete collection of prints by Grace Martin Taylor
• Clay Marsh honors third annual VP Achievement Award winners

• Combat cypress canker: keep your evergreens green with advice from WVU Extension
• WVU official joins international research leaders to discuss ethics and compliance

• WVU graduate student's essay to be featured in Cormac McCarthy Society collection
• WVU's Liu named ASM International Fellow

• President Gee urges alumni to help fellow Mountaineers 'dream big' and 'go first' at WVU Capitol Hill luncheon
• New WVU Press book asks: Do community leadership development programs work?
• West Virginia Prevention Research Center awards bicycle to local student

• WVU School of Medicine recognizes compassion
• WVU College of Law's Energy Center and Downstream Strategies release report on strategies to comply with EPA rules on coal plant emissions

• Alumni couple's unique scholarship supports WVU students throughout college experience
• WVU engineering students make history and bring home $100,000 award in NASA robotics competition

• Agreement creates formal presence for WVU engineering efforts in Mexico
• Barbara B. Highland Charitable Trust makes $5.2 million donation to WVU

• Portable PET helmet captures images of the human brain in motion
• Jerry West Basketball Scholarship established
• Barrett family still giving back to WVU sports decades later
• Internship helps WVU student refine goals
• WVU psychology professor studies the effects of cannabinoidal withdrawals
• WVU Extension Service Council Circle renovation complete, ready for camps
• Interim dean appointed to WVU School of Dentistry post on permanent basis
• WVU Libraries to honor Storer College for West Virginia Day celebration
• WVU alumni, friends to gather in Washington Tuesday for annual luncheon on Capitol Hill
• Energy Express to kick off annual summer reading and nutrition initiative
• Registration open for WVU Extension Service's Junior Firefighter Camp
• WVU theater program hosts Russian exchange students

• WVU research to target parasites in Africa's disease spreading tsetse fly
• Using geographic information, WVU study shows different areas of neighborhoods have different attitudes, opportunities for crime
• 4-H alumni have opportunity to recapture youth at West Virginia state 4-H camp reunion
• WVU's Watts Museum to host children's event on West Virginia Day
• WVU experts offer commentary on EPA's landmark fracking study, encourage continued commitment to new drilling technologies
• Team from WVU finishes second in Robo-Ops Competition
• Moving McDowell: Southern West Virginia schools partner with WVU to promote physical activity

• WVU's 15th president, Paul Miller, passed away June 5
• WVU psychology professor studies the effects of cannabinoidal withdrawals

• WVU receives $6.7 million from Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust to revitalize Reedsville Farm
• WVU Board of Governors approves $1 billion budget; campus infrastructure projects
• WVU launches undergraduate degree in public health
• WVU publishes history of first African-American college in West Virginia
• WVU Alumni Association gears up for Graduates Emeritus Weekend
• WVU accepting nominations for honorary doctoral degrees
• WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding researchers
• WVU to host Olympians as part of 2015 National Coaching Conference June 9
• WVU College of Creative Arts welcomes new faculty for fall 2015
• WVU sports economist part of group evaluating Boston for 2024 Summer Olympic Games

• WVU Medicine is next step forward for clinical enterprise
• Tips to keep your lawn a cut above from WVU Extension Service
• WVU Foundation honors philanthropists
• New WVU study asks: What factors drive older adults' decision making?
• WVU English professor to present at Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference in June
• WVU adjusts FOIA procedure
• Provost names inaugural class of Academic Leadership Fellows

• Safeguard your poultry flock amid avian flu concerns
• $350,000 grant expands WVU water quality monitoring of three rivers
• West Virginia social studies education conference to be held at WVU June 22
• WVU professor of physics named 2015 Outstanding Public Service Award winner
• McQuain Trust establishes presidential endowment at WVU with $3 million gift

• Two WVU Theatre alumni create, star in comedy film 'Loners'
• Mountain State Business Index continues slide for fourth consecutive month

• It's official: WVU seals purchase of former Mountain State campus in Beckley
• WVU College of Creative Arts announces new MFA in Technical Direction
• WVU English professor wins fellowship to England to study Jane Austen
• Emergency fund established for WVU international students
• WVU teams finishing preparations for national robotics competitions
• WVU alumnus creates jobs and power, reduces waste
• Seventeen Days: new mobile app educates teens on risky sexual behavior
• Hodder to lead expanded clinical and translational efforts at WVU