Udday Datta, a doctoral student studying human and community development, won third place in the Yuanye Competition for his project “Reviving the Hill,” an effort to reconnect Pittsburgh’s Hill District, an historic African American neighborhood, to the rest of the city.
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Back by popular demand, equine-assisted wellness workshops will be offered at On Eagles’ Wings Therapeutic Horsemanship Center. Under the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, the Center is the home of WVU’s equine studies minor in equine-assisted activities and therapies.
A state-of-the-art auditorium at Reynolds Hall, the new home of WVU’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics will be named in honor of the late Harry H. Esbenshade Jr., an accomplished business leader and philanthropist in Vienna, West Virginia.
The WVU Center for Resilient Communities, in partnership with the WVU Food Justice Lab, will host their online food and race reading group from noon to 1 p.m. every Friday in March and April.
Now in the second year of funding, the Center for ActiveWV, at the WVU College of Physical Activity and Sport Science, has awarded 15 community grants for 2021, which range up to $5,000 for projects to improve pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure in communities, schools and health centers across the state.
Amy Cyphert, a lecturer at the WVU College of Law, received the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum for “Tinker-ing with Machine Learning: The Legality and Consequences of Online Surveillance of Students,” which was published in the Nevada Law Journal in 2020.