Applications are open for the second annual Women Innovate Pitch Competition to be held virtually Oct. 20 from 5-7 p.m. on Zoom. The competition is open to all faculty, staff and students and other community members throughout West Virginia; however, teams must have a woman as the presenter.
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Author Valerie Sayers will give a reading as the 2021 Virginia Butts Sturm writer-in-residence at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11, in Room 130 of Colson Hall. In addition to her reading, which is free and open to the public, she will work with WVU creative writing students for the week.
“The Medicolegal Symposium on the Serial Murder Case of Reta Mays” will be webcast from the WVU College of Law Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration is free and required by Oct.12.
Students from theSchool of Theatre & Dance are coming back to the stage with “35mm: A Musical Exhibition” Sept. 30 - Oct. 3. The production is a collection of songs and transitions by Ryan Scott Oliver based on photographs from Matthew Murphy.
The WVU Potomac State College Dulin Memorial Scholarship, which pays homage to a grandmother’s encouragement for earning a good education to children she raised, was awarded this year to Paige Durr.
After two years of overcoming adversities, hours of hard work and nearly 35,000 lines of code later, Team Mountaineers from the Statler College placed 6th out of 22 teams who qualified for the final round of the NASA Centennial Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2.