A Nigerian student at West Virginia University who will graduate in May with a Ph.D. in human and community development wants to work to help vulnerable women, especially pregnant women. This is the first in a series of WVUToday stories focused on purpose, a foundational pillar of WVU.
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To accommodate continued construction on the Reynolds Hall project, a portion of the Rail Trail between 4th Street and Hazel Ruby McQuain Park will be closed Nov. 1-7.
To help improve health and wellbeing services for WVU employees, approximately 4,500 faculty, staff and graduate assistants were randomly selected to complete the National Faculty/Staff Health Assessment by Friday, Nov. 5.
The Internal Audit Office provides oversight of external audit activity for all departments and regional campuses of WVU, the WVU Research Corporation, WVU Innovation Corporation and its affiliates.
The IRS has awarded $100,000 to convert the college’s Taxpayer Advocacy Law Clinic into the only Low Income Taxpayer Clinic in the state. The grant will help fund a new full-time program director and the clinic will be renamed the WVU College of Law Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.
Future orthodontists training at the School of Dentistry will benefit from an alumnus’s endowment gift to aid the Department of Orthodontics. The namesake endowment established by Dr. David C. Spokane and family supports the Department’s greatest needs, as determined by leadership.