2013

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.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Dr. Gary Phillips, a nationally known expert on education and a West Virginia State University (WVSU) alumnus, will discuss the “The Past and Future of Reading in America: The Big Picture” during his keynote speech at the 58 annual West Virginia Reading Association (WVRA) conference, Nov. 21-22.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State University (WVSU)
women’s
basketball team opens its 2013-14 season Friday by hosting the First Annual MEC-CIAA Challenge
at Fleming Hall.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The Office of Military Student Services at West Virginia
State University (WVSU) invites students, faculty and staff to show their appreciation for the
nation’s veterans Monday, Nov. 11, at the Wilson University Union.

Budding young gardeners in West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension
Service’s SCRATCH Project have become entrepreneurs with the delivery of their first
harvest of sweet potatoes to The Wild Ramp market in Huntington. The crops will be sold in the
shop with proceeds benefiting the youth-based agricultural education program.

Learn to write music for video games, websites and other new media platforms at
“Composing for New Media 101” with composer, performer and producer Chuck
Biel at the West Virginia State University (WVSU) Economic Development Center (EDC) Saturday,
Nov. 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

INSITUTE, W.Va. – More than 500 high school students from 10 West Virginia
counties will visit West Virginia State University (WVSU), Thursday, Nov. 7, for the fourth
annual GEAR UP Student Leadership Academy.

INSTITUTE, W.Va.West Virginia State University’s (WVSU) College of Business and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the National Center for Human Relations, is requesting proposal submissions for the Human Rights Conference scheduled for April 10-12, 2014.

INSTITUTE, W.Va.—After 41 years of service at West Virginia State University,
Provost R. Charles Byers today announced his retirement effective June 30, 2014.
Byers
began his lifelong career at WVSU as a professor in the education department and has held
several leadership roles but his first connection with State was as a student in the
mid-1960’s.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Competing against similar sized programs from around the
country, the West Virginia State University (WVSU) Yellow Jacket ROTC Battalion finished third
in the rigorous two-day Ranger Challenge competition held Oct. 25-26 at Fort Pickett, Va.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. — West Virginia State University (WVSU) Criminal Justice students
walked away with top honors at the annual West Virginia Criminal Justice Educators Association
conference Oct. 24-25 at West Liberty University.

Dr. Boddupalli Prasanna, director of the International Maize and
Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Global Maize Program in Nairobi, Kenya, will present a free
seminar
on the campus of West Virginia State University (WVSU) Friday, Nov. 1, at 1 p.m. in
Hamblin Hall, room 107.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – Step Afrika!, an internationally renowned group devoted to
the traditional art of stepping, will be performing at West Virginia State University (WVSU)
in
the P. Ahmed Williams Auditorium of Ferrell Hall on Monday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service
continues to broaden its focus on specialty crop production with two new grants from the West
Virginia Department of Agriculture totalling nearly $36,000.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – With high rates of preventable diseases affecting many
West
Virginians, the West Virginia State University (WVSU) College of Professional Studies will
focus
its Fall Convocation, “Food, Fat and Fitness,” on health.