WVU Today

High school students will have the opportunity to develop creativity and design skills in fun and unique ways when they register for Design WV Summer Camp at West Virginia University.

Recognizing West Virginia University's strong presence in and around Washington, D.C., with nearly 6,000 alumni living and working in the metro area, University representatives will head to the nation's capital next week to celebrate WVU and its innovators who are blazing unmarked paths to discovery.

Don K. Nakayama, M.D., M.B.A., has been named the new chair of the West Virginia University School of Medicine Department of Surgery.

Wafik Iskander and Jim Dean were recently reappointed to their respective administrative posts in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University for five-year terms, beginning July 1, 2013.

A counseling psychology professor at West Virginia University has been recognized as one of the best counseling, psychology and therapy professors in the United States.

Outstanding pianists, piano teachers and keyboard artists from throughout the nation will join internationally acclaimed pianists Ann Schein and Dan Haerle for the West Virginia University Keyboard Festival and Competition, to be held at the Creative Arts Center, June 24-28.

Communication studies students in a senior capstone course at West Virginia University are combining communication studies and sociology classes by initiating a recruitment plan to draw donors to the American Red Cross Blood Donation Drives on June 20 at the WVU Student Recreation Center and July 2 at the WVU Mountainlair.

West Virginia University ranked seventh overall in AARP's biennial ranking of top employers.

WVU sophomore Travis Braden won his first race in the Flying WV Chevy car in the Berlin 100 in Michigan.

On June 20, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln brought West Virginia into the Union. The state's flagship university is taking the 150th anniversary day to remember and celebrate our place in the nation's history.

The West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism will offer a new online undergraduate minor in strategic social media this fall, which will give WVU students a competitive edge in the marketplace after graduation.

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition opening at the Erickson Alumni Center on June 20, examines how President Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War, the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties.

For 20 years, Energy Express has served the needs of children from West Virginia's rural and low-income communities. Focusing on nutrition and summer reading, the West Virginia University Extension Service and AmeriCorps program takes place at 72 sites in 40 counties from June 15 to August 3.

Larry Nichols, professor of sociology at West Virginia University, has been awarded the History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association?s Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for his achievement in the history of sociology.

West Virginia University School of Public Health graduate Janelle Graves of Fayetteville, N.C., was so eager to begin an internship at the West Virginia State Legislature last year that she skipped going home to visit her family in Fayetteville, NC, or Christmas to find an apartment in Charleston.

In his latest book, "The Incurables," West Virginia University professor Mark Brazaitis tackles the oppressive horror of mental illness and the complexities of romantic and familial love affecting the residents of a small Ohio town.

As part of West Virginia's Sesquicentennial celebration hosted by the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission June 20-23, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Eberly Family Professor of Civil War History at West Virginia University, will present "West Virginia Statehood and the Union."

West Virginia University added to its numerous club sports accolades this spring, as students from four different teams earned individual or team awards this spring.

A new scholarship established in the West Virginia University School of Music honors the memory of a young Chinese woman named Ho-Ping Cheung, who was only 17 years old when she died in Hong Kong in 1962.

Following a tryout held this past week, former West Virginia University women's basketball standout Natalie Burton was selected to play on the Australian National Team.