With COVID-19 still creating logistical challenges in higher ed classrooms, Lisa Di Bartolomeo, professor of Russian and Slavic and Eastern European studies, wanted to give her students an alternative to exams. For this story assignment, she instructed her students to research local folklore and fairy tales from their hometowns in the hopes of driving connectedness within families, communities, neighborhoods and history.
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Derek Reese, a West Virginia University School of Art & Design alumnus and Morgantown native, is representing the United States in international contemporary art exposition Art Bienal in Antofagasta, Chile through Nov. 30.
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.
Pedro Mago, Glen H. Hiner Dean of the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU, has announced the appointment of Tammy Cavaretta to executive director of development, effective Oct. 25.
Seven collegiate innovators from WVU with unique product ideas showcased their work in the second annual ZinnStarter Manufactured Products Pitch Competition. Hosted by the WVU Morris L. Hayhurst LaunchLab, the event was held virtually Oct. 7.
The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum at West Virginia University is pleased to announce a new exhibit organized as part of the statewide commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial in 2021. The exhibit, “Drawing the Battle Lines: Editorial Cartoons from the West Virginia Mine Wars,” runs until July 1, 2022.