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.
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.
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.
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.
The job of resident assistant has changed over the years — and yet remains one of the most rewarding experiences on campus.
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.
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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Look back and forward in time at the events, the fashion and the people of 1971 and 2021.
These priceless photos from old Mountaineer Field are now public after decades.
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.
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.
A law professor had worked for the SEC in enforcement. Then a class prompted her to look at human rights.
WVU is helping West Virginia capitalize on its biggest asset, the outdoors.
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.
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.
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.
On empty fields across the Mid-Atlantic, forests of skinny stalks are rising to revolutionize industries.