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The Station Eleven book cover.  

The Department of Public Administration faculty and graduate students challenge you to imagine a new ending for this year’s Campus Read, Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. Submissions of up to 1,500 words are due March 18. Write your own ending to the story. Up to six will be chosen to present at the event (five-minute limit) with discussion responses from scholar panelists.

Jack Hodge sitting with a professor.  

Jack Hodge became the first African American to earn an undergraduate degree from WVU when he received his B.S. in Journalism in 1954. Seventeen years after Hodge became the first African American male to graduate from WVU, Carolyn Bailey Lewis became the first black female graduate of the School of Journalism, earning her bachelor’s degree in 1971.

A closeup illustration of microbiomes.  

A recent study by Allison Brichacek and Candice Brown, researchers in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests that stroke patients’ microbiomes—and even the structure of their guts—may still be out of kilter a month after the stroke has passed.