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College Park, a public-private mixed-use housing complex for West Virginia University students as well as students and employees with families, is taking shape at its location off Willey Street – within easy walking distance of the Downtown Campus. The new construction on approximately 9.6 acres of University property, replaces outdated units that had not been…
West Virginia State University (WVSU) students will conduct a food drive at the Yellow Jackets first home football game of the season Saturday, Sept. 21, as part of the Governor’s Day to Serve. Students will collect items for Manna Meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Lakin Field as the WVSU Yellow Jackets will…
Martin & Seibert, L.C. was recently honored as a 2013 Go-To-All-Star Law Firm for the fifth consecutive year and was featured in the May 20, 2013 edition of Fortune Magazine. According to American Lawyer Magazine, the firms named as Go-To Law Firms make up less than one-half of one percent of all of the law…
Gypsy Denzine, assistant vice provost of the professional education unit at Northern Arizona University, has been named associate provost of engagement and outreach at West Virginia University. In this position, she will lead and coordinate the University-wide land-grant outreach mission and foster broad engagement with the state. “We are tremendously excited to welcome Dr. Denzine to…
As a child, Col. Edward Michael “Mike” Fincke launched model rockets with his father from a park near Pittsburgh. Little did he know that years later he would be among an elite group of spacewalkers. Today, Col. Fincke has spent a total of 381 days, 15 hours and 11 minutes in orbit and logged 48…
While the immediate use for the solar house built by students from West Virginia University was determined more than a year ago — it will be entered into the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon in October — its future use was recently secured, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. Co-principal investigators Konstantinos Sierros,…