If there are 168 hours in a week and you’re in class for less than 20, how are you going to spend the rest? Everyone’s best advice is, get involved. Sports, service, religious, creative, international, professional, Greek—WVU has more than 450 student organizations of all kinds. Largest is always the sports fan club Mountaineer Maniacs. “That attracts a lot of…
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Recent stories from Morgantown
WVU Celebrating the Past, Poised for the Future
West Virginia University has played a key role in the history and development of West Virginia, almost from the moment of the state’s formation. Written by Becky Lofstead | Photos courtesy of West Virginia University and West Virginia & Regional History Center (see more at wvhistoryonview.org) It’s hard to imagine a more exciting time to be at WVU than as…
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Q & A with WVU President Gordon Gee
Gordon Gee has held more university presidencies than any other American—including here at West Virginia University from 1981 to 1985, when he was just in his thirties. He returned here in 2014 to give WVU the benefit of his long career in university leadership, and he brings hands-on glee to the task. We caught up with him to ask about students, families, and the university’s future.
Cruisin’ Cuisine
We’ll remember 2017 as the summer that food trucks rolled out onto the streets of Morgantown. Who’s behind the wheel?
A Respite Reclaimed
With the opening of WVU’s Falling Run Greenspace, a small army of volunteers has returned a near-downtown oasis to us all. A hundred years ago, Falling Run fell in a series of charming, rocky cascades. It flowed from what we now know as the WVU Organic Research Farm through the steep ravine between Willey Street and the downtown campus to…
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