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Name confusion leads to vaccine cancellations

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University and WVU Medicine sound similar, but they are two separate entities. And that caused a lot of confusion with people who wanted to register to receive the COVID-19 vaccine last week. On March 12, WVU sent an email saying it was gauging interest from ...

Lessons from the Pandemic

WVU Today  Under the quiet surface of near-stilled campuses over the past year, West Virginia University researchers, faculty and administrators have scrambled to learn more about COVID-19 and mitigate its spread, calculated how to teach online and hybrid classes and figured out how ...

Jernigan is first Black woman elected student government president

WVU Today  The campaign for West Virginia University Student Government Association leadership ended Wednesday evening, as the SGA Judicial Court certified Amaya Jernigan and Hunter Moore as president and vice president, respectively, for the 2021-22 academic year. Jernigan, a ...

WVU expresses concern as Campus Carry gun bill appears up for revival

Campus Carry may be back before the Legislature. Four bills allowing people with concealed carry permits to carry on higher education campuses have been introduced this session, and on Thursday morning, WVU President Gordon Gee shared his concerns with The Dominion Post that one of them ...

WVU using questionnaire to gauge student interest in COVID-19 vaccine

West Virginia University is using a questionnaire to gauge student interest in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine should it become available to them.  Students have until 5 p.m. Monday to complete the questionnaire, and the data will then be reported to the Higher Education Policy ...

WVU is aware of hate flyers on campus

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University was made aware Tuesday that a national hate group, Stormfront, had distributed recruitment flyers on the Morgantown campus. An investigation has been completed, which included the University Police Department communicating with the FBI to gather ...