This alumna returned to West Virginia and started a magazine that became so much more.
Betty Puskar survived breast cancer. Then she helped other women in West Virginia have a better chance to do the same.
Every decade, there's a new plan to take on cancer. This one is the most impressive yet.
A freshman feared death. So he made a video game about it.
Following COVID-19, these Mountaineers went above and beyond.
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.
The University had just days to decide how to close campuses of thousands while still offering education and healthcare and continuing vital research.
Months ago, a woman did something that in easier times would not have been unusual. She gave blood. And then it changed everything.
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.
Are all those supplements you take every day helping you? This researcher has answers.
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.
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.
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.
Lauri Andress investigates why people don't have access to food.
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.
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.
Using skills from high school debate, Kassie Colón has harnessed a passion for social justice to broaden cultural representation on West Virginia University’s campus and beyond.
Tom Bennett took out his tape recorder and dictated a letter home to his family in Morgantown, W.Va. He mentioned his location: “Somewhere in the great, noble land of South Vietnam – at least I hope it’s South. I’m pretty sure it is.”
Mackenzie Mays was honored by the nation's journalists for her work speaking truth to power.
Shun Nakasone makes his living hanging out with tennis champs and Major League Baseball legends.
John Chambers shook up the Internet as CEO of Cisco, now he has his sights set on home.
Trace the history of comics and art.
Ken Ward Jr. is the genius journalist you don’t want investigating you
The changing climate is embedded in our trees, bees and trash.
As a spacesuit engineer, one alumnus defines what the next spacesuits look like.
A patient is not a number. Each is a human with a story to tell.
History doesn’t always repeat itself, says this Civil War historian.
If you're a fan of "Stranger Things," you've seen some of William Davis' work.