West Virginia University’s Mountainlair, the award-winning student union, will celebrates its 70th birthday this weekend. Since 1948, the Mountainlair has been the heart of the WVU campus, and continues to be the hub for campus and events, activities, and leisure. The Mountainlair is also the home to WVU’s premier late-night program WVUp All Night.
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The Downtown Campus Library will host an opening reception for the West Virginia University Libraries’ newest exhibit, “Looking at Morgantown,” Friday (April 20), from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 1020.
Students from the Davis College Horticulture program will offer a workshop Saturday (April 21) at 11 a.m. on "Thriller, Filler and Spiller" container plantings at the Evansdale Greenhouse. The event is free and open to the public.
West Virginia University has adopted a new academic suspension policy that aligns with the Satisfactory Academic Progress financial aid policy. Under the new policy in place on the Morgantown campus, students will file financial and academic appeals through one application.
The future of West Virginia’s state butterfly, the monarch, is in danger. Populations have declined so much that it is at risk of being placed on the endangered species list — a move that could have regulatory and economic impacts for the state. According to West Virginia University Extension Service Wildlife Specialist Sheldon Owen, most experts estimate that the Eastern population of monarchs has declined by 90 percent over the last 20 years.
This spring, the largest group to ever travel from WVU worked in rural Nicaragua for nine consecutive days, serving members of a highly resource-reduced region of the world. Fifty-seven WVU students and four faculty members traveled to Nicaragua to give medical care to the citizens of La Corona and Las Limas.