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 […]
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WVU planning two new steam generation plants in Morgantown
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia University is in the planning stages to construct two new steam generation plants in Morgantown. Most of the buildings across WVU’s footprint are heated and cooled […]
WVU Medicine Department of Cancer Prevention expanding into new home
MORGANTOWN – The WVU School of Medicine’s Department of Cancer Prevention and Control is growing in line with the university’s long-stated goal of achieving a National Cancer Institute designation. During […]
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 […]
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 […]
Board of Governors wants ‘top tier’ funding for WVU Athletics
MORGANTOWN — In “coachspeak” – the unofficial dialect of coaches, built of well-worn mantras and cliched truisms – it might have sounded something like this: “We can’t control what’s going […]
Local officials ready to work alongside new WVU president
MORGANTOWN — Cheek to jowl. That’s how former WVU President Gordon Gee once described the relationship between the university and the city of Morgantown. The imagery speaks of a connection […]
WVU Board of Governors approves naming opportunities
MORGANTOWN — As part of the consent agenda considered during its June 13 meeting, the West Virginia University Board of Governors approved three items listed under “Renaming of Buildings.” Among […]
WVU terminates food service contract with Sodexo
MORGANTOWN — Sodexo has got to go — quickly. The WVU Board of Governors on Friday voted to terminate its contract with global food service and facilities management giant Sodexo […]
WVU Board of Governors backs Hutson in split leadership vote
MORGANTOWN — If it was a power grab – as one outgoing member suggested – it was a successful one. In Gordon Gee’s final meeting as the school’s president, the […]
