A brotherly bond and desire to give back will provide scholarship opportunities for students at the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
In the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources on Friday, halls were filled with brilliant minds and innovative research with the culmination of the 2025 West Virginia University Research Week. Engineer and scientist at Idaho National Laboratory Dong Ding delivered this year’s distinguished seminar on nuclear energy and students from across the College presented their posters as part of this year’s symposium.
Pedro Mago, Glen H. Hiner Dean of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, announced the winners of the College’s outstanding teaching, advising, faculty, graduate student researchers and staff awards for the 2024-2025 academic year on April 11, 2025.
Students from the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources participated in the first-ever Tech Duels debating the topic of AI Unplugged: Navigating the Future and Ethical Implications of Generative AI at West Virginia University on March 7, 2025.
When West Virginia University alumni couple David and Linda Cooper decided to support and empower future engineers through a $100,000 gift, they wanted it to be meaningful, impactful and available sooner rather than later.
Raafay Uqaily, a 2023 graduate of the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has made history as the first WVU student to receive the prestigious Tau Beta Pi Laureate Award.
For our Alumni Who Inspire series this month, we connected with Virginia ‘Ginny’ Thrasher, who won the first gold medal awarded at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the women's 10-meter air rifle.
The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University continues to demonstrate its unwavering commitment to innovation, achieving a record high of $52.2 million in total research expenditures for the 2023 fiscal year. As a result, all engineering programs reached the top 100 rankings in the latest National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey.
Researchers at West Virginia University will develop technologies and strategies that will revolutionize hydrogen energy on regional and national scales as part of WVU’s addition to the Center for Clean Hydrogen.
