Demonstrating resilience, teamwork, and Mountaineer spirit, students from the WVU chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently earned several top awards at the 2026 ASCE Virginias Symposium at Old Dominion University.
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Industrial engineering students James Carnes and Kyle Gillis turned late-night tinkering on the Evansdale area of campus into Iconic Air, an energy-tech company that builds proprietary software allowing industries like oil and gas to track their emissions.
Michael Chioldi, a world-renowned opera baritone and music education graduate who has performed at nearly every major American opera house, recently starred in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Pittsburgh Opera.
Due to its success in helping students create healthy eating habits, the spring pilot program has earned a permanent spot on the fall menu.
A class in mobile app development gave Jeremy Bliner, a Pittsburgh native and student in the online master of science in software engineering program, the foundational skill set to build an app to help his partner’s ice cream shop thrive.
Ethan Hunt, a Regents Regents Bachelor of Arts graduate who initially came to WVU Tech as a business student, is starting medical school at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.