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BZA denies conditional use for University Avenue recovery house

MORGANTOWN – The question of whether the former sorority house at 1493 University Ave. should be used as a recovery home packed the Morgantown City Hall meeting chamber Wednesday evening. The answer, determined by a quorum of the Morgantown Board of Zoning Appeals at the end of a ...

WVU officials 'aware' of Ohio State's findings regarding CFO hire

MORGANTOWN – On April 17, four days after Chris Kabourek resigned as Ohio State University's senior vice president for administration and planning, West Virginia University President Michael Benson introduced him to the WVU Board of Governors as the university’s new vice president and ...

This is our moonshot: Benson continues to push AAU membership

MORGANTOWN – “We choose to go to the moon.” It’s the title of a famous speech delivered at Rice University by President John F. Kennedy on Sept. 12, 1962. In it, as the title suggests, Kennedy makes the case for putting Americans on the moon, stating “Man, in his quest for ...

Benson, Marsh tout growing partnership with Cognito Therapeutics

MORGANTOWN – Medicine and money. During Friday’s meeting of the West Virginia University Board of Governors, President Michael Benson was joined by Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean for Health Sciences, in championing a burgeoning relationship that could advance the ...

Capito announces $38 million in funding for WVU initiatives

DPNews@DominionPost.com Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, has announced Congressionally Directed Spending allocations from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human ...

Report: WVU, WVU Hospitals have $14.3 billion impact on state

MORGANTOWN – WVU on Monday released the findings of a comprehensive analysis of the combined economic impact of WVU and WVU Health System on the state of West Virginia and beyond. The bottom line – that WVU is the state’s most consequential economic asset – likely comes as a ...