Emerging leaders studying at the WVU College of Law will benefit from a new scholarship established by Steptoe & Johnson PLLC in honor of retiring former CEO Susan S. Brewer, the first woman to lead a major law firm in Appalachia.
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One of the primary calls to action for Autumn Tooms Cyprès, founding dean for the College of Applied Human Sciences, is to continue to foster the relationships between public schools and the University. Cyprès took immediate action in this regard by recently accepting a position on the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative Board.
Among a group of 1,300 participants from 100 college and university teams globally, WVU’s Experimental Rocketry Club earned multiple awards in the 2022 Spaceport America Cup in June.
A cohort of College of Applied Human Sciences students successfully passed the National Counseling Exam utilized by the state of West Virginia as the qualifying testing for professional licensure as a counselor.
Whether you’re a coffee drinker or not, you can probably finish the lyrics to the iconic Folgers jingle “The best part of waking up.” While this tune has been linked to the brand for more than 30 years, the company recently went through an identity shift, and Alyssa Pluchino (BSJ, 2014) worked on the rebranding campaign.
A collaborative journalism project is bringing together students and faculty from the WVU Reed College of Media and the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs to explore the relationship outlying communities have with news media and whether or not they are equally informed.