Archives for April 2016
April
30th
April
29th
- WVU Environmental Health & Safety to host Big 12 annual meeting
- Karl Joseph goes No. 14 to Oakland in NFL Draft
- Mountain State Business Index holds steady in April, but recession conditions remain
April
28th
- March into better health with WVU Extension's Summer Steps walking challenge
- Celebrate Mother's Day with a lunch buffet at WVU Jackson's Mill
- WVU B&E's Corporate Citizenship Project awards $20,000 in grants to local nonprofits
- WVU Center for Service and Learning announces Excellence in Civic Engagement Award recipients
- California high school brings large pool of students to WVU
- WVU receives USDA grant to support cutting-edge, insulin resistance research
- Couple reconnects with WVU landscape architecture program, endows student scholarship
- WVU chemistry department receives $1 million gift from C. Eugene Bennett Family Foundation
- National Science Foundation $300,000 grant to improve retention of STEM students at WVU
April
27th
- WVU musical theatre ensemble ends year with concert
- Beety wins WVU College of Law's Significant Scholarship Award
- WVU ceramicists build their own 3D printer
- WVU, GE partner on project to increase performance of solid oxide fuel cells
- Bridge the gap with education at the WVU 2016 Diabetes Symposium
April
26th
- Phillips invited to present ethics research to NSF
- WVU student organizations host inaugural Mountaineer Maker's Challenge
- PRT suspends service during summer maintenance starting May 7
- New entrepreneurship and innovation major is platform for new student opportunities at WVU
- WVU food scientist and professor recognized by West Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Ecological design pioneer to deliver E. Lynn Miller Lecture at WVU
- 12th Annual WVU Blue & Gold Mine Sale collects donations
- Rockefeller Legacy exhibit opens in WVU Libraries and online
- Provost selects three faculty members as Academic Leadership Fellows
- WVU Libraries promotes life and works of Pearl S. Buck with new website
- Joyce McConnell awarded inaugural Srebalus LGBTQ Ally Award at West Virginia University
- WVU launches entrepreneurship initiative for current or discharged military personnel
- WVU music major accepted to Oxford
April
25th
- J. Edgar Hoover Foundation establishes scholarship in WVU forensic science program
- Gift from WVU grad Dr. Chad Westfall creates dentistry endowment
- Youths to explore inner artists at WVU Extension Mountaineer Summer Drawing Academy
- WVU Safety and Health Extension to raise awareness of fall hazards through demonstrations and trainings
- Youths can connect with nature at 75th annual West Virginia State Conservation Camp
- Feasibility study under way for possible Mountainlair renovations
- College of Creative Arts Events Digest Week of April 25
April
22nd
- WVU appoints Dr. Keith Bailey to new role as dean of Online Learning and Continuing Professional Education
- WVU alums return to dish out some "Tough Love"
- WVU creates Institute of Water Security and Science to generate research and collaboration in water resources
April
21st
- WVU Collegiate Recovery Program to present Multiple Pathways to Recovery forum
- WVU senior design teams finishes third, sixth in international robotics competition
- Art educators honor two from WVU
- WVU's Dan Carder among Time's 100 most influential people in the world
April
20th
- WVU researcher receives $1.7 million award to fight cancer
- Satake to discuss ceramic works through the centuries at the Art Museum of WVU's next Art Up Close! event
- WELLWVU offers Law Enforcement Trainings on Trauma
April
19th
- WVU alumnus parlays NASA internships into employment
- WVU Press and Morgantown Writers Group host authors at joint reading
- Docent Art Jacknowitz to present Art Museum of WVU 'Lunchtime Looks' program April 27
- State residents, communities to benefit from Benedum grants awarded to WVU
- WVU Political Science Department to host John R. Williams Memorial Lecture
- Scott Tobias joins WVU as Director of Bands
- WVU journalism alumna wins Pulitzer for public service
- WVU student choreographers featured in Spring Dance Showcase
April
18th
- WVU to host YouTube sensation and sexual assault prevention and awareness advocate Laci Green April 20
- College of Creative Arts Events Digest: week of April 18
April
15th
- WVU BOG approves new degree programs, receives update on Beckley campus
- Kiddie Days set for April 26-30 at WVU Animal Sciences Farm
- Project ECHO to use video-conferencing model to address hepatitis C in West Virginia
- Holmes picked by Atlanta in WNBA Draft First Round
- WVU and greater Morgantown earn 'Safe Communities' accreditation
April
14th
- WVU student finds hope among wildfire ruins, wins regional interior design award
- WVU's Skidmore bids "Fond Farewell"
- WVU choral concert takes audience on a world tour
- National fraternity withdraws recognition of colony at WVU
April
13th
- WVU workshop overviews new technologies to increase oil and gas productivity
- WVU professor designs fun with foam
- WVU graduate student researchers shine in Three-Minute Thesis Competition spotlight
- WVU social work professor honored with 2016 Neil S. Bucklew Award
- WVU faculty member writes book for early career safety professionals
- WVU pottery sale features and supports student work
April
12th
- Getting ready for the Gold-Blue Spring Football Game
- Two WVU teams, University of Charleston win at Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition
- WVU Soils Team wins second national championship
- David Lindley, Judy Collins top lineup for April 17 installment of Mountain Stage at WVU
- WVU marks National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
- 2016 class of Bucklew Scholars ready to break boundaries at WVU
April
11th
- WVU's Gee on panel reporting on decline in state funding of research universities
- Seniors in Art & Design exhibit works at WVU's Mesaros Galleries
- WVU College of Law to manage the state's continuing education for lawyers
- Prepare for and learn about periodic cicadas with advice from WVU Extension expert
- College of Creative Arts Events Digest Week of April 11
- WVU's top seniors honored with 2016 Order of Augusta, Outstanding Seniors award
April
8th
- WVU mechanical engineering student named Redesign Challenge finalist
- WVU Statler College award winners announced
- WVU Press publishes collection of short stories that explores the experiences of LGBTQ people in rural Appalachia
- New director brings love of jazz to WVU
- Hendricks conducts final WVU Wind Symphony concert
- Registration open for WVU Extension Service statewide natural gas conference
- Teens can fight live fires at summer WVU Extension Junior Firefighting Camp
- WVU history professors' book recognized by the Organization of American Historians
- WELLWVU kicks off moveWELL to increase student's physical activity levels, and offer opportunities to support local and national violence awareness initiatives
April
7th
- WVU Sociology professor featured in Science Magazine
- Beth Royall named WVU Outstanding Librarian for 2016
- WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding researchers
- WVU Press publishes novel that explores a religious commune from the point of view of its youngest member
- WVU flutist wins collegiate competition
- WVU Symphony Orchestra celebrates cellist William Skidmore
- New Mountaineer to begin term after April 22 'Passing of the Rifle" ceremony
- Award-winning photographer to speak for WVU Festival of Ideas, Nath Lecture
- Stout named WVU Eberly College Outstanding Public Service award winner
- Three leading professionals to be inducted into WVU Academy of Distinguished Alumni
- WVU School of Medicine Alpha Omega Alpha honor society inducts new members
April
6th
- Two national fraternities issue interim suspensions to WVU chapters over concerns
- Four WVU advisers honored for excellence with Evans Award
- Art Museum of WVU opens new Appalachian artists exhibit with public event April 15
- WVU launches LGBTQA and gender-inclusive community
April
5th
- WVU Eberly College announces 2016 Outstanding Staff Award recipients
- WVU presents Mary Zimmerman's "The Arabian Nights"
- WVU Rifle's Thrasher named to U.S. Olympic team
- WVU graduate business teams place at case competitions, Brumley named top presenter at Big 12 MBA event
- WVU supports National It's On Us Week
- National fraternity suspends local WVU colony over student video
- WVU astrophysicists part of gravitational wave search that provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers
- WVU set to become City of Morgantown's Internet provider in leasing agreement
- 'Student Athletes Speak Out' at Milan Puskar Center
- Six earn WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching
- WVU launches Health Sciences Innovation Center
April
4th
- WVU names director of Student Engagement and Leadership
- WVU wins civil engineering regional competition
- Lyons: Winning in the game of life
- WVU Council for Women's Concerns to host Equal Pay Day bake sale to raise awareness about salary inequality
- WVU College of Law clients granted clemency by President Obama
- The bow tie behind the man: WVU President Gordon Gee shows off his collection
- College of Creative Arts Events Digest Week of April 4
- WVU kicks off 125 Years of Women celebration with raising of Centenary Time Capsule April 5
- WVU faculty, staff encouraged to support Gold Blue & You Campaign
April
1st