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WVU professor awarded Fulbright Scholarship

WVU Today A West Virginia University professor who will focus on the increased visitor use in protected areas and green spaces in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic — including the negative effects — has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for the fall 2021 ...

WVU College of Creative Arts brings back Visual Arts Summer Academies

MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia University College of Creative Arts will bring back its Visual Arts Summer Academies after involuntarily losing the ability to conduct them last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying restrictions. Two academies are set to be held ...

Gee honored for years as leader

 WVU Today The leadership of West Virginia University President Gordon Gee is being recognized on a national scale. Gee was recently named one of the recipients of the Elite Leadership Academy’s 2020 Elite Leadership IMPACT Award, which honors exceptional leaders for ...

Rejection vs. inclusion

WVU Today Some LGBTQ+ people want to be part of faith communities. And though they have concerns about inclusion, they hope to find a faith community that feels like a home, based on West Virginia University research. Megan Gandy, BSW program director at the WVU School of Social Work, ...

Telehealth pilot shows promise

WVU Today Transitioning home after a stay in a nursing home or long-term care facility can be a difficult experience, oftentimes leading to hospitalization or reinstitution. But preliminary results from a new West Virginia University Office of Health Affairs pilot program shows that ...

Bridging the Gap

WVU Today In 2014, around 10,000 gallons of a coal-washing chemical called MCHM spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, affecting 30,000 residents in nine counties. Two years later, floods ravaged central and southeastern West Virginia, claiming 23 lives. These incidents and ...