Once a Mountaineer
We’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.
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Always a Mountaineer
West 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.
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Book Value
Jayne 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.
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A Professional Boost with a Personal Twist
How a WVU alumnus' experience abroad as a student shaped a writing career
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Why You Do the Work
Stephenie Kennedy-Rea wears many hats at WVU’s Cancer Institute.
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Goal Keeper
When 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.
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The Beat Goes On
Since 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.
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MAKING HISTORY IN THE CIA
Andrew Hartsog (History, ’96) didn’t want to just study history, he wanted “to make history.” And make history, he did.
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Paying it Forward
If 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.
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POSITIVE DISRUPTION: Rodney Williams and the community of SoLo
Rodney 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.
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The AT of WWE
One 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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