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West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito delivered the Poundstone Lecture in a private event on Monday, October 3, as part of West Virginia University’s Department of Mining Engineering’s William N. Poundstone Lecture Series at the Erickson Alumni Center.  

4-H is an oasis for thousands of youths across West Virginia. This youth development program gives young people an opportunity to build relationships, skills and experiences that last a lifetime. To recognize the importance of 4-H, West Virginia University Extension joins in a celebration of National 4-H Week October 2-8.

Time and time again, a team of students from West Virginia University’s mining engineering program step up to the challenge of researching and recommending a plan of action to recover the maximum amount of resource from a full-scale operating coal mine.

Among a group of 1,300 participants from 100 college and university teams globally, WVU Experimental Rocketry Club earned multiple awards in the 2022 Spaceport America Cup in June.

Members of West Virginia University’s student chapter of the  American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and  American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) competed in the annual ASCE Virginia’s Conference held at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, on April 6-9 following a two year hiatus caused by COVID-19.

In this post-commencement season, three West Virginia University alums are making plans to help West Virginia with research work focused on a range of issues.

After eight months of developing designs, building crucial components, and spending hundreds of hours testing their Mars rover, the West Virginia University Mountaineer Robotics team was selected to advance to the final round of the University Rover Challenge 2022 (URC).

Harnessing creativity and determination while classrooms and extracurricular activities were upended by the pandemic, the newest cohort of Bucklew Scholars has forged new paths to begin a journey at  West Virginia University focused on discovery and finding creative solutions to the issues that have commanded the attention of its generation.