WVU has developed a unique space – The Purpose Center – where students can do a 360° review of their options in academics, student organizations, extracurricular activities, health and wellbeing and career networking.
After almost a year into his role at WVU as the senior associate vice president for research and graduate education for Health Sciences and vice dean of research for the School of Medicine — Ming Lei is looking toward the future.
“Too often, when teachers get ‘good’ at their craft, they leave the classroom and become administrators," according to math coach Joanna Burt-Kinderman. “It’s currently the only way to advance in your education career. We’re here to change that.”
Oriana Ovide (BS ’20, MS ’22) was always interested in science and math, a true STEM kid from her Columbia, Maryland, days to searching for the right school that would foster her interest in forensic science, particularly in forensic chemistry.
Now an attorney with Sullivan and Cromwell, a law firm serving Wall Street clients like Goldman Sachs and American Express, Michael Escue (Business, ’92, Law, ’98) traces a path from his current success back to his days at West Virginia University.
Each month we look back at the previous and pull together the best images taken through the eyes and lenses of our West Virginia University photography staff. This month, we look back at February's best photos and scenes from around campus.
Micaela Morrissette, Laura Jackson and Linda Skidmore | Research 2024
As an experiment and way to help exhibit AI as a tool and resource, all images within this feature were created using an image generator using prompts directly from the story. The direct keywords used are underlined in red for each image.
As WVU repositions itself, Fred King sees the Mountain State’s flagship, land-grant institution weathering future storms and, despite a changing higher ed landscape, remaining a premier research institution. Trust him, he’s done his research.
A chance date. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Research. Breast Cancer. All of these factor into a love story that has withstood "in sickness and in health."
Basketball is more than the cheers of the crowd, the squeak of shoes on the hardwood floors and the hustle of 10 players on the court. What really makes that scoreboard light up is physics.
We are what we eat, and that equation expands to where our food comes from, who grew or raised it, who processed it, who packaged or prepared it and who served it to us.
