South Korean insulin manufacturer to build facility in Morgantown

April 13, 2023

A lower-cost insulin manufacturer has taken the next step toward establishing a location in West Virginia. UNDBIO, a South Korean company, has secured a lease with West Virginia University to build an insulin manufacturing facility in Morgantown. The company anticipates creating 200 jobs within the first three years while investing $100,000,000 in phase one of the project. Gov. Jim Justice celebrated the lease agreement and praised the development during a briefing at the state Capitol. “The Morgantown area has a strong manufacturing history and I am proud that UNDBIO will ...

Student-led Relay for Life returns to campus

April 12, 2023

The WVU and Morgantown community is invited to join the movement and fight back against cancer while honoring and remembering loved ones during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Mon County/WVU. The relay is set for 6 p.m.-midnight Friday in the WVU Shell Building, 3450 Monongahela Blvd. in Morgantown. There will be entertainment and games throughout the night, with all profits benefiting the American Cancer Society. This includes music from a local band, a pilates class, a wing eating contest, a craft table, and a ceremony where those who have battled cancer are ...

WVU gets $8M federal grant for rare earth elements demonstration project facility

April 4, 2023

MORGANTOWN – Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced on Tuesday that WVU will receive an $8 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to advance its rare earth elements extraction demonstration project. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute ...

WVU, Concord University receive mental health services funds

March 29, 2023

West Virginia University and Concord University will be receiving money from the U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program. The funding will support the training of school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies across West Virginia. WVU will receive $990,226 and $605,591 will go to Concord University in Mercer County. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the $1,595,817 funding Tuesday. “Strengthening school-based mental ...

Gee announces scholarship, addresses budget challenge

March 28, 2023

WVU TODAY “The state of West Virginia University is strong,” President Gordon Gee said during his spring State of the University address on Monday. “And we will be even stronger in the decades to come, thanks to a concerted focus on what matters most.” Gee, calling on the unique ...

Humanities Center to host an evening with author Mike Ingram

March 25, 2023

WVU TODAY The West Virginia University Humanities Center will present an evening with author Mike Ingram from 7:30-9 p.m. Monday in the Downtown Library’s Milano Reading Room. “Ingram’s writing gives depth and perspective to those deep vulnerabilities that make us human. In his hands, we’re led into a poignant rendering of modern life with all its foibles, complexities, and quiet, hard-won joys,” humanities center director Renée Nicholson said. Ingram’s stories, essays and journalism have appeared in a number of publications, including PHOEBE, The North American ...