West Virginia native and NASA mathematician and space pioneer Katherine Johnson was celebrated Friday by the West Virginia University Libraries and the West Virginia and Regional History Center. The latest addition to the WVRHC’s Distinguished West Virginians Program was announced and ...
BY MIKE NOLTING Foreign language majors at West Virginia University are learning via email how the teach-out process will be administered. World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (WLLL) is being eliminated as part of WVU’s academic transformation. The WVU Board of Governors voted earlier this month to eliminate approximately 130 programs and more than 140 faculty positions. When the teach-out is complete in foreign languages, only classes in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French will remain, but WVU officials have said they are working to develop a partnership with ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito announced this week federal grants to support eight projects at WVU Hospitals, including WVU Medicine Children’s, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and an award for the WVU Health Sciences Center. Capito is ranking member of the Senate ...
KINGWOOD — A West Virginia University civil and environmental engineering master’s student said she will take water samples from the city’s drinking water distribution system storage tanks, if the state will cover her liability insurance. Eva Bridges said the study will look at the microbial community within the tanks. The focus will be on the relevance of microbial communities associated with tank sediment in driving water quality. “We're looking at taking samples from the top, middle and bottom of each tank,” Bridges said. “About a liter from each level.” She ...
On a late summer day, Ralynn Thomas rests in her room at WVU Medicine Children’s when she receives a visit from Michelle Kline, a breastfeeding counselor at Monongalia County Health Department’s WIC office. The new mother had already signed up for WIC, the acronym for the federal ...
MORGANTOWN – WVU administrators provided updates on Wednesday on the academic RIF process and on the assessments of the Strategic Initiatives units and the Office of General Counsel. The updates were offered during an online Campus Conversation. President Gordon Gee opened the ...
