An engineering student from WVU won first place at the 2018 Green Entrepreneur Competition. The event was held on Aug. 25-27, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, during the third annual Student Congress, an international seminar hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Power and Energy Society.
Colleges
The Department of English and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture by author Jessica Harris at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in 130 Colson Hall. In her talk, Harris will identify the dominant ways in which scholars, practitioners and policymakers approach campus sexual violence, often resulting in the failure to eradicate sexual violence on campus.
A Japanese group will visit the West Virginia University campus this fall to promote cultural understanding and international learning experiences within the field of physical education teacher education.
The West Virginia University School of Music will offer a series of specialized learning days for students of all ages interested in learning about a particular instrument.
The Community Music Program will offer a six-week digital photography course designed for students to learn to effectively and efficiently capture those once-in-a-lifetime moments beginning today (Sept. 12) and tomorrow (Sept. 13). The course will be taught by award-winning photographer David Bess, and will meet in the WVU Creative Arts Center every Wednesday or Thursday depending on specific level.
Among the lions and zebras in Tanzania in the summer heat, an environmental geoscience student explored the geography of the land. Weirton, West Virginia, native Francesca Basil (BA Environmental Geoscience, 2018) traveled to the East African country in summer 2018 with support from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences’ Academic Enrichment Program.