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Welcome to our Meet the Grads series, highlighting the incredible students from the Statler College who are earning their degrees during the 2024 Spring Commencement. 

Five exceptionally talented incoming West Virginia University freshmen whose academic interests span the fields of humanities, medicine and science are eager to use their curiosity, creativity and problem-solving skills to generate new ideas and innovative solutions for a better future as the 2024-25 WVU Foundation Scholars, the highest academic scholarship the University awards. 

A team of West Virginia University mining engineering students earned second place in the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration/National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association Student Design Competition for their mine design and reinvestment plan. 

Teams of West Virginia University mining engineering students received first and second placement in the Senior Student Design Award contest for their mine design plans.  

For the second year in a row, the West Virginia University Mine Rescue Team from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is the champion of the 2024 Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Competition.

Over 65 teams from around the country gathered this weekend for the second annual West Virginia University Mountaineer VEX Robotics Competition, hosted by the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at the WVU Rec Center. 

With support from dedicated faculty and fellow students, a West Virginia University student has found his purpose in research, helping chart his life’s course. 

Students in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University will now have a chance to pursue a degree in one of the top ten fastest growing professions globally: robotics.

Like most rising seniors at West Virginia University, Moriah Frazier began searching for the perfect capstone thesis project as she approached her final year at the University. But Frazier, who hails from Clarksburg, Maryland, is a cybersecurity major at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Mineral Resources and Engineering. A fairly new program, cybersecurity didn’t yet have many established capstone projects for her to choose from. 

Two West Virginia University teams earned top honors at the 2023 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration – Eastern Collegiate Mine Rescue Organization (ECMRO) Coal National Competition on November 4 at the West Virginia Office of Miners Health Safety and Training center in Julian. This is WVU’s eighth consecutive win in the last four years.