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Green grass, with yellow wall and flying blue WVU sign
Green grass, with yellow wall and flying blue WVU sign

Perfect practice makes perfect!

A new home for the Pride. The Mountaineer Marching Band will soon have the perfect place for perfect practice: the Pride Practice Facility.

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woman in buckskins, holding rifle
People stand in the center of a basketball court
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An afternoon with the Mountaineer

Mountaineer Mary Roush's family and friends from her home in Mason County came to the WVU Coliseum to cheer on the Men's Basketball Team in its 80-77 victory over Auburn Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. See photos from their day.

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rendering of building, many windows, wide sky
rendering of building, many windows, wide sky
  • Winter 2022
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  • Winter 2022
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Exceeding the Vision

The new spaces in Reynolds Hall exceed expectations of both founder and students.

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Little Big Moments, team photo, gymnast
Little Big Moments, team photo, gymnast
  • Winter 2022
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Little Big Moments

50 years after its inception, Title IX still shapes women’s educational experience in myriad ways.

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A new team for a new era at the WVU Alumni Association

After emerging from the pandemic seeking to redefine its purpose and value in a very different world, the WVU Alumni Association has entered into a unique partnership with West Virginia University.

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woman, red hair, glasses, holds sneaker with dripping gold and blue paint
woman, red hair, glasses, holds sneaker with dripping gold and blue paint
  • Winter 2022
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  • Winter 2022
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Force of Nature

Meet the founding dean of the newly created WVU College of Applied Human Sciences — she’s a force of nature in custom sneakers.

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  • Winter 2022
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75 Years of Mountaineer Week

WVU celebrated Mountaineer Week with a full schedule of events featuring the Beard Growing Contest, the Arts and Craft Fair, the ever-popular Quilt Show and more.

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mountaineer alumni standing outside on a beautiful day
mountaineer alumni standing outside on a beautiful day
  • Winter 2022
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40 Years of Mountaineers

A Mountaineer Reunion spanning more than 40 years was held over Homecoming weekend in October, with 23 of the buckskinned mascots joining current Mountaineer Mary Roush.

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statue looking down
statue looking down
  • Spring 2022
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  • Spring 2022
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Flashback—The Mountaineer Statue at 50

What is now an enduring symbol of the spirit of West Virginia University stands 50 years after its creation outside the Mountainlair — after more than 20 years of planning and being nearly derailed multiple times by controversy and other obstacles. The twists and turns of the story are documented in “The Mountaineer Statue,” by Gordon Thorn, BSA ’53, MSA ’55 and Scott Rubin, BS ’05.

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  • Spring 2022
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  • Spring 2022
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Five teams to watch

We know you follow Mountaineer football and basketball. So we wanted to give you five West Virginia University sports teams to keep an eye on.

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  • Spring 2022
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  • Spring 2022

Once an RA

The job of resident assistant has changed over the years — and yet remains one of the most rewarding experiences on campus.

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Ready Player One

When Noah Johnson is fully “locked in,” very few people in the competitive gaming world can touch him. “Locked in” — his phrase — is a hyper mind for the first-year economics student at West Virginia University. A native of Baltimore, Md., Noah is WVU’s inaugural official esports player who also happens to be one of the best Madden NFL players in the world.

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  • Spring 2022
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Solving for the real world

Researchers from across campus crowded into the sleek Media Innovation Center with coffee in hand — curious and committed to nearly 36 hours of working together with some people they knew and a lot of others they did not. Provost Maryanne Reed stood at a lectern to kick off a hackathon — the kind of challenge found in Silicon Valley.

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A photo of the mountaineer mascot in 1971 merged with the mountaineer mascot today.
A photo of the mountaineer mascot in 1971 merged with the mountaineer mascot today.
A photo of the mountaineer mascot in 1971 merged with the mountaineer mascot today.
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  • Fall 2021
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Time Shift: 1971-2021

Look back and forward in time at the events, the fashion and the people of 1971 and 2021.

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Protesters march in Morgantown holding signs after the George Floyd killing in 2020.
Protesters march in Morgantown holding signs after the George Floyd killing in 2020.
Protesters march in Morgantown holding signs after the George Floyd killing in 2020.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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Making A Home for Everyone

We have a lot of work to do to be a truly inclusive campus. Let's do it.

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Bill Fahey, the Mountaineer Mascot in 1933, holds a rifle with the butt against the ground and is dressed in boots, pants, a flannel shirt and a pelt vest and wears a cap as he stands on old Mountaineer Field with a few people scattered in the stands.
Photo of raised stage in old Mountaineer Field with a UMWA sign and people on the platform and empty stands on the side.
A photo of old Mountaineer Field next to Woodburn Hall as seen across the river from Westover.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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Field of Yesterday’s Dreams

These priceless photos from old Mountaineer Field are now public after decades.

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Jena Martin poses for a photo wearing a business suit.
Jena Martin poses in a studio wearing a suit.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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At the Connection of Business and Human Rights

A law professor had worked for the SEC in enforcement. Then a class prompted her to look at human rights.

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An orange puppet with yellow hair in pigtails is wearing a child's fabric mask.
An orange puppet with yellow hair in pigtails is wearing a child's fabric mask.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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Parade of Masks

When everything went online in the early days of the pandemic, WVU Libraries created an online exhibit featuring a new element in our lives: face masks.

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Verena Zaisberger holds a competitive rifle in her hand while looking off frame.
Verena Zaisberger holds a competitive rifle in her hand while looking off frame.
Verena Zaisberger holds a competitive rifle in her hand while looking off frame.
  • Fall 2021
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The Lone Rangers

With their national championship canceled hours before it was supposed to start, the rifle team went into a 2020 season that was like no other yet brought them closer together.

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Jingxin Wang standing in a brown field where trees are being grown for a biomass project.
Jingxin Wang standing in a brown field where trees are being grown for a biomass project.
Jingxin Wang stands on a brown field where trees are being grown for a biomass research project.
  • Summer 2021
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  • Summer 2021
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Rise of the Biomass

On empty fields across the Mid-Atlantic, forests of skinny stalks are rising to revolutionize industries.

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Graphic of a blue face mask.
A graphic of a blue facemask
  • Summer 2021
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Crushing COVID

WVU researchers ventured into the sewers, developed software for robots and tapped into renewable wood, all in the name of science and fighting COVID-19.

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  • Spring 2021
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  • Spring 2021
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No Capes Required

Following COVID-19, these Mountaineers went above and beyond.

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WVU women's hockey team making
WVU women's club hockey team.
  • Spring 2021
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How to Build a Hockey Team

A woman wanted to play her favorite sport, ice hockey, at WVU. But there wasn't a team. So she and a bold group of women made a team out of hard work and hard knocks.

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Image of Nolan Burch's face.
Image of Nolan Burch's face.
  • Fall 2020
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  • Fall 2020
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Never Again

One family, an alumnus and the University are working together to make sure a hazing tragedy never happens again.

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Photo of women standing on a bridge spanning a river. The Rocky Branch Bridge crosses the South Fork of the Kentucky River and connects communities to the outside world in the event of flooding. March 9, 2017 By Nancy Andrews
Photo of women standing on a bridge spanning a river. The Rocky Branch Bridge crosses the South Fork of the Kentucky River and connects communities to the outside world in the event of flooding. March 9, 2017 By Nancy Andrews
Photo of women standing on a bridge spanning a river. The Rocky Branch Bridge crosses the South Fork of the Kentucky River and connects communities to the outside world in the event of flooding. March 9, 2017 By Nancy Andrews
  • Fall 2020
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  • Fall 2020
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The Story of Appalachia Beyond Elections

A pop-up publication after the 2016 election meant to set the record straight on Appalachia is still going strong nearly four years later.

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Image of books on a shelf.
Image of books on a shelf.
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  • Fall 2020
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  • Fall 2020

Recommended Reads

WVU Press is churning out a series of beautiful, thoughtful and provocative books in its recently published works.

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Illustration of a medical face mask
Illustration of a Zoom call with various images from a pizza box to sewing machine to canned goods, an admissions letter, horseshoe, mask and laptop.
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  • Summer 2020
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  • Summer 2020

The Way Forward

The University had just days to decide how to close campuses of thousands while still offering education and healthcare and continuing vital research.

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  • Fall 2019
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  • Fall 2019
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The Beautiful Day In Our Neighborhood

In 1995, Fred Rogers gave the commencement address at West Virginia University. He believed that we make life more beautiful in the pursuit of our dreams.

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