The Department of English will host a virtual reading by Gwen Strauss, author of “The Nine,” Thursday, Sept. 23, at noon, via Zoom. Her latest book of narrative nonfiction is about nine women who struggle to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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Mums are available for purchase at the WVU Greenhouse from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The flowers are $20 each or $18 each when you buy two or more.
Emily Garner, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at WVU, has been named the Maurice and Jo Ann Wadsworth Faculty Fellow in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
The College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and College of Education and Human Services faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to attend the 2021 Homecoming Tailgate Oct. 2 at the WVU Campus Recreation Fields on the Evansdale Campus.
Students attending the West Virginia University Institute of Technology will benefit from a southern West Virginia native’s $125,000 scholarship gift in memory of his late father. The scholarship will be awarded to undergraduate students from Mercer, Raleigh and Wyoming counties attending WVU Tech.
Recognizing the growing intersection of humanities, social sciences, and STEM, West Virginia University has established a new School of Mathematical and Data Sciences that prepares students for a world where understanding large volumes of data is required in a broad spectrum of professions.