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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.
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.
Mountaineer Spirit: Spin Class
Fifty years after women first joined “The Pride of West Virginia,” the Mountaineer Marching Band, the WVU Magazine follows a senior industrial engineering major who fits “spinning” with the band’s color guard into a packed class and work schedule.
Talking to Angels
A random encounter at a restaurant shows Children's Vision Rehabilitation Program students how sweet the kindness of strangers can be.
Ticked Off
A team led by a biomedical engineering researcher hopes to ramp up and reimagine how medical professionals diagnose tick-borne infections.
Nature's Lab: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
WVU researchers take aim at making one of West Virginia’s biggest resources safer for all.
Round and Round
Approaching a traffic roundabout can conjure up consternation among motorists. “Which lane do I need to be in?” “Do I need to stop?” “Do I need to yield?”
Eye Excellence
To establish a visual-sciences Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, WVU received an $11-million collaborative grant from the National Eye Institute.
Like Mother, Like Son
Commencement is always an exciting time for students graduating, but for mother and son Drs. Aisha Rizwan and Umer Rizwan, the 2022 May Commencement provided a moment they will never forget.
Basketball Legend
Congratulations to Bob Huggins who joined the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
Mary G. Roush
The decision on who would be the 68th Mountaineer was a historic one: Mary G. Roush is the third woman and the first freshman to be named the Mountaineer Mascot.
Mike Carey
WVU women’s basketball coach Mike Carey announced his retirement after 21 years of leading Mountaineers to success.
Viral Advocate
A pre-nursing student whose TikTok account has amassed over 3 million followers, Baylen Dupree, took her message to a popular talk show.
The New School
Internationally-known expert in educational leadership and interdisciplinary transformations, Autumn Tooms Cyprès, has been named founding dean of WVU’s College of Applied Human Sciences.
The Funny Professor
Despite the popular cliché, sitting in front of the TV may not rot the brain. For Jay Malarcher, associate professor of theatre history and criticism, consuming episodes of classic TV sitcoms helped him launch and maintain a career in researching television and comedy at the intersection of real life. Malarcher has published a book, “The Classically American Comedy of Larry Gelbart” and served a Fulbright lectureship teaching American comedy as a cultural mirror in Croatia.
Mind Over Muscle
The Sweet Spot. Stress is key to a good workout. But overexercising and overtraining are real risks.
Weathering the Solar Storms
In the next decade, humans are preparing to blanket the most accessible little slice of the cosmos — low Earth orbit — with more than 50,000 satellites, a more than 25-fold increase. Safe and sustainable space operations in this crowded domain require reckoning with a challenging, yet largely unexplored, phenomenon called space weather.
Successors: Not A Hero
Lt. Col. Matthew Moser, MS ’98, PhD ’02, is not a hero. At least, that’s not how he would describe himself.