Messages of hope and thunderous applause resounded throughout the West Virginia University Coliseum and Canady Creative Arts Center as nearly 4,500 May 2022 graduates received their diplomas during 16 in-person commencement ceremonies filled with traditional pomp and circumstance May 13-15.
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After navigating an unsteady world of events, as many as 4,500 new graduates will walk the stage at West Virginia University’s 2022 Commencement, which returns to the WVU Coliseum and Canady Creative Arts Center following two years of pandemic-restructured ceremonies.
The monthly Staff Council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 18, beginning at 8:15 a.m. in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair and via Zoom.
Victorine Louistall Monroe made history twice at West Virginia University. She received her master’s in education from WVU in 1945, making her the first known Black female to be awarded a graduate degree from the University. Then Monroe made history again in 1966 when WVU hired her to teach Library Science, making her the University’s first Black faculty member. In April, WVU Libraries unveiled a portrait of Monroe (1912-2006), Professor Emerita of Library Science, the first painting to be commissioned as part of the Inclusive Portrait Project, in the Downtown Library’s Robinson Reading Room.
Pedro Mago, Glen H. Hiner, Dean of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has announced the recipients of the College’s Thriving Women Program grants, intended to empower female faculty and staff to advance in their professional careers through individual or community transformation. The program, designed by Cerasela Zoica Dinu, associate dean for student, faculty, and staff engagement and chairperson of the Statler College Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and Mago, was funded by dedicated alumna Dianne Anderson.
The WVU School of Nursing Beckley Campus hosted a pinning ceremony for 28 students May 5 at Calvary Assembly of God.