WVU appoints associate provost for engagement and outreach
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 […]
NASA astronaut to speak to WVU community about experiences in space
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 […]
WVU solar house to be integrated into curriculum through NSF award
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, […]
New Dual Degree at WVU Injects Business Knowledge into Public Health
The health care field now requires an increasing amount of business knowledge, which is why West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics and School of Public Health have partnered to create a dual degree program that will infuse business into the field of public health. The MBA/MPH (Master of Business Administration/Master of Public Health) […]
Groundbreaking for New West Virginia State University Residence Hall Set for Sept. 20
A groundbreaking ceremony will take place Friday, Sept. 20, at 12:30 p.m. to mark the start of construction of the first new residence hall to be built on the campus of West Virginia State University (WVSU) since 1969. The new Judge Damon J. Keith Scholars Hall will feature suite-style living with two-, three- and four-bedroom […]
Watts Museum Opens New Exhibition, “Outside the Mine: Daily Life in a Coal Company Camp”
A new exhibition at West Virginia University’s Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum explores the lives of miners and their families in the coal towns of Appalachia. “Outside the Mine: Daily Life in a Coal Company Camp” focuses on four central components of our region’s coal communities — commerce and the company store, religion […]
