Nineteen members of the WVU track and field team have been named to the 2021 Academic All-Big 12 Track and Field Team with 36 women across the conference who earned the honor with a 4.0 grade point average.
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West Virginia University football's 5th Quarter Program is expanding to create unique educational opportunities for select student-athletes thanks to a nearly $1.6 million gift from WVU alumni John and Elaine Chambers. The couple's gift will establish Chambers Elite Climbers, a supplemental two-year program that provides additional personal and professional growth opportunities to student-athletes chosen through a competitive application process.
Two WVU faculty members have been named as recipients of the University’s 2022-2023 Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Program. Kristen Dieffenbach, associate professor in the College of Physical Activities and Sport Sciences’ Department of Coaching and Teaching Studies. Daniel Grossman, associate professor in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics’ Department of Economics.
Associate Professor of English Glenn Taylor has received the Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press for his upcoming novel, “The Songs of Betty Baach.”
All faculty are invited to attend the WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program presentation “Clinical Teaching” Thursday, May 12, from noon to 1 p.m. Presenter is Dr. Arif R. Sarwari, Department of Medicine chair and professor.
With a new $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, WVU has become just the second university in the country to receive funding for a visual-sciences Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. The COBRE grant will help WVU develop innovative ways to prevent, treat and slow the progression of vision problems that are currently incurable.