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.
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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.
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.
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.