Pedro Mago, Glen H. Hiner Dean of the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has announced the appointments of two faculty members to administrative positions, effective Oct. 1.
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The late Alice and Jack Frost will be forever memorialized at WVU through The Alice & Jack Frost Endowment for Art Museum Exhibitions. Sue Frost established the endowment to honor her parent’s deep roots at WVU and their love of the arts.
The Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Graduate Series Webinar on Career Management is Monday, Oct. 11, at 5 p.m., on Zoom.
WVU’s Mon Hills Records will release a new album in fall 2022 focusing on the John Denver classic and state song “Country Roads” — a project created by the WVU Music Industry Program to showcase the musical talents of faculty, students, staff and alumni around one song that is part of our WVU and state heritage.
The College of Media partners with PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize–winning news organization, to help train student journalists on how to properly fact-check political claims. Lou Jacobson, a senior correspondent at PolitiFact, joined Bob Britten’s Editing and Curation class in-person again after more than a year of pandemic-related remote learning.
The College of Media has been a leader in online education since developing the nation’s first online Integrated Marketing Communications master’s degree program in 2003. The latest innovation — niche-specific IMC cohorts — brings together students from a particular industry who progress through the IMC master’s degree program together. The Defense Information School cohort started in fall 2021, Healthcare Communications begins in spring 2022 and Higher Education Marketing begins in fall 2022.