2013

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Three West Virginia State University (WVSU) students will
soon be learning outside the classroom as they take part in two competitive internship
programs.

West Virginia State University (WVSU) has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the West
Virginia Division of Science and Research Instrumentation Grants Program to expand Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research and teaching capacity.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. -The West Virginia State University (WVSU) women’s
basketball team is conducting a toy drive in conjunction with local United States Marine Corps
Reserve Toys for Tots campaign.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State University will begin offering a
Continuing Education class in January designed to help administrative professionals advance in
their careers.

INSTITUTE, W.Va.West Virginia State University (WVSU) undergraduate students Erica Bickham, Vasillios Dianellos and Shayla Owens have been awarded the prestigious McNair Scholarship for the 2014 academic year.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State University (WVSU) Health and Human
Performance Associate Professor Oree Banks has been honored by the Charleston Lions Club with
the Leonard Jarrett Award, the highest honor given by the group.

West Virginia State University (WVSU) is accepting submissions for its second annual Student Film and Video Festival, open to current high school and WVSU students. Entries must be postmarked by Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

WVSU 4-H extension agents have been working with first graders at Mary C. Snow West
Side
Elementary School since the fall to teach kids about nature, gardening, wildlife and the
ecosystem.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – More than 180 students will graduate from West Virginia
State University (WVSU) on Saturday, Dec. 14, during two commencement ceremonies.

Cultivating the gardening skills of young people is the focus of West Virginia State
University (WVSU) Extension Service’s Junior Master Gardener (JMG) training session
Friday, Dec. 13, from 9 a.m. to noon at the WVSU Aerospace Education Laboratory (AEL) in
Institute.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Furthering its mission of offering service to the state,
the
West Virginia University System entered into an articulation agreement today (Nov. 21) with
West
Virginia State University.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The athletic court at West Virginia State
University’s (WVSU) Fleming Hall will be dedicated to Mountain State coaching legend
Mark Cardwell during a ceremony at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, prior to the Yellow Jackets
men’s basketball season opener against Bluefield State College.

West Virginia State University’s (WVSU) College of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics will host the Dr. James E. Brimhall Science Bowl for Regional Education Service
Agencies (RESA) III on Friday, Nov. 15, at 9 a.m. in Hamblin Hall. The competition will
feature
17 teams from nine local high schools. The top three teams will advance to the state
competition
in the spring.

West Virginia State University (WVSU) has been honored with an alumni engagement award during the Association for Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) annual conference in Washington, D.C.

INSTITUTE, W.Va.—West Virginia State University (WVSU) has announced a new
concentration in energy management to its Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration
designed to support the state’s growing oil and gas industry.