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Former West Virginia University rifle standoutGinny Thrasherhas been selected as one of the top-30 nominees for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, announced by the NCAA on Tuesday.

AWest Virginia Universitybiomedical engineering majorwho wants to pursue bridging the gap between the technical world and the healthcare sector has been awarded a Gilman Scholarship to study in Denmark.

Football was never intended to be a beauty pageant, and this study byWest Virginia University researchers backs it up.

While researchers atWest Virginia Universitywere testing coal miners’ safety gloves to help reduce lost-time accidents, they went a step further.Eduardo Sosa, a research associate professor inmechanical and aerospace engineeringin theBenjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, and Marta Moure, a post-doctoral fellow from Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, reduced the need for future physical testing of the gloves through computer simulations.

Seven students pursuing doctoral degrees at West Virginia Universityare receiving funding through the Ruby Scholars Graduate Fellows Program. Lauryn Alexander, Heather Baldwin, Elaine Christman, John Hansen, Emily Hughes, Alyssa Stonebraker and Nicholas Winch have been named to the eighth class of fellows.

A $500,000 donation fromWest Virginia Universitygraduate Michael Manley of Morgantown will create two endowed scholarships for students in theLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

WhenWest Virginia Universityfirst offered cybersecurity classes in 2003, the gravest fear of a casual Internet user might have been opening an infected email attachment that erased computer files or reset their homepage.

Alumni and friends gave $177 million to West Virginia Universitythis past year, making it the second highest year of giving in the University’s history.