Thanks to West Virginia University’s growing commitment to campus tree care and an ongoing collaboration between the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design and Facilities Management, WVU Evansdale is now home to a newly crowned champion – the largest paperbark maple in the state. The 24-foot “State Champion” is the first of its kind to be nominated to the West Virginia Big Tree Program.
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The West Virginia University Reed College of Media and the WVU College of Creative Arts have developed a new major that combines journalism and communication with art and media design.
Sport and Exercise Psychology doctorate student Zenzi Huysmans, from the Kingdom of eSwatini in southern Africa, was awarded the Distinguished Doctoral Student Practice Award.
The fall 2018 anchors for the award-winning “WVU News” television newscast have been chosen. The main “WVU News” anchors for fall 2018 are Shelby Davis of McMechen, and Shannon MacNeil of Akron, Ohio. The social square anchor is Regan Blaha of Wheeling. The ESPNU/WVU sports reporters are Anderson Small of Fredericksburg, Virginia and Julia Mellett of Morgantown.
Jackson General Hospital in Ripley entered into a management agreement with WVU Hospitals effective Sept. 1.
Software plays a vital role in supporting scientific communities. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at West Virginia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation in support of her work to enhance security for modern software programming cyberinfrastructure. The award comes with $649,156 in funding over a three-year period.