Allison Arnold was born with a heart condition requiring surgery at just 18 months old. Her life was saved by the treatments she received through outstanding medical techniques and solutions from the West Virginia University Medicine Children’s Hospital. As a result, when she embarked upon a doctoral degree at WVU, Arnold felt driven to study engineered human-compatible materials.
A Black Appalachian first-generation college student graduating with a cumulative 4.0 grade-point average, a two-term Mountaineer Mascot passionate about finding novel therapies for mental health disorders and a young entrepreneur who has worked to empower small farmers in West Virginia are among the accomplished student leaders who have been honored with West Virginia University’s most prestigious student award, the Order of Augusta.
The
West Virginia University chapters of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AIChE) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) were announced the winners
of the Statler College Day of Giving Student Organization Challenge.
P. V. Vijay, associate professor in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
West Virginia University, has been named a Structural Engineering Institute
(SEI) Fellow.
Plants and animals on land aren’t the only organisms that need oxygen to survive. Underwater aquatic life requires dissolved oxygen to live and prosper.
Approaching a traffic roundabout can conjure up consternation among motorists.
Alumni, friends and students of West Virginia University are invited to come together March 9 in support of the University’s fifth Day of Giving.