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It's true - our WVU connection is in our nature. Once a Mountaineer. Always a Mountaineer.
Once a Mountaineer Always a MountaineerWe’ve cheered them on to great victories and offered support after disappointing losses, hoping for the day we’d see them receive accolades as sports professionals. Most of all, they exemplify what it means to be a Mountaineer.
Read More : Once a MountaineerWest Virginia University alumni are sprinkled throughout our staff and faculty, representing to the students they encounter that the foundation built here can construct a career that gives back to the University and the state.
Read More : Always a MountaineerJayne Anne Phillips (English, ’74) writes about what she knows best — her home state of West Virginia — but the recent Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner feels that being a writer is complicated. She can explain.
Read More : Book ValueHow a WVU alumnus' experience abroad as a student shaped a writing career
Read More: A Professional Boost with a Personal TwistStephenie Kennedy-Rea wears many hats at WVU’s Cancer Institute.
Read More: Why You Do the WorkWhen the much-anticipated Team MVP was announced, the recipient wasn’t the leading scorer or the All-American defender. The members of the team had voted for senior midfielder Amanda Hill to receive the honor.
Read More: Goal KeeperSince the creation of the WVU Alumni Band more than five decades ago, Ed Gilger (Recreation, ’65), a percussionist, has marched in nearly every Homecoming Parade. And at 83 years old, he plans to continue, finding rejuvenation in the familiar tunes.
Read More: The Beat Goes OnAndrew Hartsog (History, ’96) didn’t want to just study history, he wanted “to make history.” And make history, he did.
Read More: MAKING HISTORY IN THE CIAIf there’s one thing that has shaped Dr. Zack Koenig’s life, it was his mother’s prescription for success: surround yourself with the people you want to be like. That advice brought him to West Virginia University.
Read More: Paying it ForwardRodney Williams (Economics / Finance, ’06; IMC, ’08) didn’t know exactly what he was getting into when he started SoLo Funds, but he knew that he saw a problem he not only wanted to fix but had the ability to do it.
Read More: POSITIVE DISRUPTION: Rodney Williams and the community of SoLoOne West Virginia University alumna can attest to the authenticity of WWE by tending to the broken bones, torn ligaments, sprains, dislocations and any imaginable injury to the bodies of World Wrestling Entertainment superstars.
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It could be argued that Kelly Tuckwiller Collins (’09, ’11, Reed College of Media) grew up at the State Fair of West Virginia. She has been attending the annual August event since before her first memory.
Read More : Fair game: Kelly CollinsFor six months of the year, the East Coast of the United States braces for “Hurricane Season.” While local officials and meteorologists signal caution to their viewers that may be in areas of danger, WVU graduate Nick Underwood flies directly into them.
Read More : WVU alum flies into storms for scienceLuke Yingling, Law ’22, is blazing his own trail as the founding president and CEO of Analytica Legalis, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to help attorneys win in court.
Read More : Grad Helps Attorneys Make the Right CaseSarah Beth Childers (MFA English, ’09) knew she’d write about her brother’s death soon after he died by suicide in 2012.
Read More : Author Sarah Beth Childers writes ‘Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss’Browse all photo essays.
Nothing says “One WVU” like the Flying WV and it’s everywhere on campus in Morgantown, Keyser, Beckley and beyond. We fly it, we wear it, and when we see others wearing it at home and far away, all it takes is a “Let’s Go!” answered by “Mountaineers!”
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