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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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  • Spring 2022
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  • Spring 2022
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The Last Word: Another Mountaineer

Accomplished mountain climber and outdoor education advocate Tyrhee Moore, BS ’15, Sport Management, found his passion for the outdoors early in life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Moore was a member of the first all-African-American team to climb the highest mountain peak in North America, Denali, in 2013. Moore founded Soul Trak Outdoors, a nonprofit organization that connects underserved communities to inclusive, diverse outdoor spaces, activities and leadership.

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smiling woman, arms crossed
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  • Spring 2022
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  • Spring 2022

Alumni Diary-Veronique Vernot

When Veronique Vernot was 5, she knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Growing up in Connecticut, she remembered hearing people talk about how knowledgeable lawyers were, and from her own desire to help people, her dream to become a lawyer began.

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  • Spring 2022
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  • Spring 2022
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Alumni Diary-Andy Stofleth

A FORMER U.S. MARINE was looking for a career change after a diagnosis with intestinal cancer. Following his recovery and a bachelor’s degree through the GI Bill, he enrolled in the Integrated Marketing Communications Master’s Program at West Virginia University.

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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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Mary Marantz sits with legs crossed on an armchair and holding a smartphone.
Mary Marantz sits with legs crossed and holding smart phone.
Mary Marantz sits on armchair while smiling.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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Slow Growth, Strong Roots

It was debate at WVU that helped Mary Marantz learn the crucial skill of listening that led to Yale Law School and becoming her own boss.

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Jim Braxton carries a football on the field against Pittsburgh with two opposing team members running behind him.
Jim Braxton poses in his jersey #44 while holding a football.
Jim Braxton on the field carrying the football while Cincinnati players run toward him.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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A Mountaineer to Remember

Jim Braxton made a big impression on the NFL and on everyone he met.

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Riley Imlay poses with his friend Melina who he met in Costa Rica while teaching English in the Peace Corps.
Elizabeth Andrick teaches a class at her peace corps assignment in Cambodia.
Elizabeth Andrick teaches a class at her peace corps assignment in Cambodia.
  • Fall 2021
  • The Minute
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  • Fall 2021
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WVU Grads in the Peace Corps

Since 1961, nearly a quarter million Americans have served in the Peace Corps, including a host of Mountaineers. Here are just a few of their stories.

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Jena Martin poses for a photo wearing a business suit.
Jena Martin poses for a photo wearing a business suit.
Jena Martin poses in a studio wearing a suit.
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  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
  • The Last Word
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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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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.
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  • Fall 2021
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  • 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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Michelle Sieminski poses in her camouflage Army uniform near Stewart Hall at sunset.
Michelle Sieminski poses in her camouflage Army uniform near Stewart Hall at sunset.
Michelle Sieminski poses in her camouflage Army uniform near Stewart Hall at sunset.
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2021
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Three Lieutenants

A former Mountaineer mascot, a National Guardsman and a former substitute teacher tested their strength to see if they had what it took to become officers in the Army National Guard.

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Graphic of a blue face mask.
A graphic of a blue facemask
  • Summer 2021
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  • Arts & Culture
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  • 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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Gordon Gee with his arm around Betty Puskar who is holding roses. They are at a football game.
Gordon Gee with his arm around Betty Puskar, who is holding roses. They are at a football game.
Gordon Gee with an arm around Betty Puskar at a football game.
  • Spring 2021
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  • Spring 2021
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A Survivor's Legacy

Betty Puskar survived breast cancer. Then she helped other women in West Virginia have a better chance to do the same.

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Illustration of pills, vaccine bottles and cancer cells.
Illustration of three doctors in white coats against a backdrop of vaccines that look like missiles.
Illustration of doctors with a backdrop of vaccines that look like missiles with large cancer cells in the background.
  • Spring 2021
  • Science
  • Health
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  • Spring 2021
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  • Health
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An Old Fight with New Weapons

Every decade, there's a new plan to take on cancer. This one is the most impressive yet.

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Image from Summerland video game shows a door standing in a field with a number 1 on it. A police car is parked nearby.
Image from Summerland video game shows a door standing in a field with a number 1 on it. A police car is parked nearby.
Image from Summerland video game shows a door standing in a field with a number 1 on it. A police car is parked nearby.
  • Spring 2021
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  • Arts & Culture
  • Spring 2021
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  • Arts & Culture

The Game of Afterlife

A freshman feared death. So he made a video game about it.

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Photo of Lauren Maloney in white coat that says School of Nursing.
Red cape-like material background with the words A New Kind of Hero.
  • 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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Nikki Bowman holding a WV Living magazine in her office.
Nikki Bowman holding a WV Living magazine in her office.
Nikki Bowman holding a magazine in her office.
  • Arts & Culture
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  • Fall 2020
  • Arts & Culture
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  • Fall 2020

West Virginia ‘Roots Run Deep’ For Start-Up Publisher

This alumna returned to West Virginia and started a magazine that became so much more.

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Illustration of Emma Yokum in blue, woman in hard hat.
Illustration of six alumni, three women and three men.
  • Fall 2020
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  • Fall 2020
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How I Got My Job

We hear from Mountaineers across the country about how they got their jobs soon after graduation and around the time of the pandemic.

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Photo of woman answering phone at coronavirus hotline.
Photo of woman answering phone at coronavirus hotline.
Coronavirus hotline with people answering phones.
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  • Summer 2020
  • Science
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  • Summer 2020

Ask an Expert: Coronavirus Hotline

There is a call line in Charleston, W.Va., where a WVU professor and her staff and volunteers explain, as best they know, what to do when faced with the coronavirus. We asked her what working that hotline is like.

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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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Marisa Leuzzi wearing a Flying WV sweatshirt having just given blood.
Marisa Leuzzi in a sweatshirt at a hospital having just given blood.
Marisa Leuzzi in a Flying WV sweatshirt at a doctor's office.
  • Summer 2020
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  • Summer 2020
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WVU grad one of first plasma donors in U.S. to save COVID-19 patients

Months ago, a woman did something that in easier times would not have been unusual. She gave blood. And then it changed everything.

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Patrice Harris
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  • Summer 2020
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  • Summer 2020
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AMA President, alumna Patrice Harris Urges Americans to Stay Home

As the new coronavirus spreads the COVID-19 disease across the world, West Virginia University Magazine spoke with alumna Dr. Patrice Harris, current president of the American Medical Association, about the advice her association is giving the medical community and the rest of us at home.

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Portrait of Safi Khan against a gray backdrop.
Portrait of Safi Khan against a gray backdrop.
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  • Spring 2020
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  • Spring 2020

The Supplement Debunker

Are all those supplements you take every day helping you? This researcher has answers.

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Suzanne Weise and Pat McGinley stand in the law library at WVU.
Suzanne Weise and Pat McGinley stand in the law library at WVU.
Suzanne Weise and Pat McGinley stand in the law library at WVU.
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  • Spring 2020
  • Arts & Culture
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  • Spring 2020

Unmasking the Enterprise of Death

What started as a phone call from a reporter in West Virginia turned into a years-long legal investigation tracing opioid pills across the country.

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Jim Kutsch standing with guide dog at The Seeing Eye.
Jim Kutsch and guide dog taken at The Seeing Eye.
Jim Kutsch and guide dog taken at The Seeing Eye.
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  • Spring 2020
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Blind Ambition

Jim Kutsch lost his sight from a fireworks explosion when he was a teenager. He still became an engineer and created a reading technology for blind people.

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Colleen Moretz with dresses.
Colleen Moretz with dresses in background
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The Fashion Designer

Colleen Moretz started in fashion by making clothes for her Barbie dolls. Now she’s working with industry to create a standard for clothing sustainability.

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Lauri Andress standing in her office.
Lauri Andress standing in her office.
Lauri Andress standing in her office.
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  • Spring 2020
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  • Spring 2020

Mapping the Food Conversation

Lauri Andress investigates why people don't have access to food.

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John Logar competing in Iditarod Trail Invitational
John Logar competing in Iditarod Trail Invitational
John Logar competing in Iditarod Trail Invitational
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  • Alumni Diary
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A Thousand Miles of Snow

John Logar, MD '01, rode his titanium bicycle from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, in single-digit weather, through wet and treacherous snow. He was competing in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, the bicycle version of the famous dog-sled race.

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