2018

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State University (WVSU) Economic
Development Center (EDC) will host an open house for entrepreneurs and small business owners
Tuesday, June 26, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State University’s (WVSU) Center
for
the Advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics will host two summer
sessions of a day camp for high school aged youths called “Think Like an
Environmental
Scientist.”

Junior Brittany Allison singled to left to drive in
senior Micca Mirrabella with the championship winning run with two outs in
the bottom of the ninth to earn WVSU a 1-0 win over Wheeling Jesuit in the Mountain East
Conference title game Sunday in Salem, Virginia.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. — West Virginia State University (WVSU) has become the first college
in
West Virginia to earn accreditation from the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment
Partnerships (NACEP) for its Yellow Jacket Connection dual credit program.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – After years of knocking on the door the WVSU
women’s
tennis team finally knocked it down Sunday, April 29.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – More than 260 students will graduate from West Virginia
State University (WVSU) on Saturday, May 12, 2018, during a commencement ceremony beginning at
10 a.m. in the D. Stephen and Diane H. Walker Convocation Center.

WVSU Extension Service, in conjunction with the West Virginia Urban Agriculture
Conference, will host a make-and-take pollinator workshop Tuesday, May 1, at 6 p.m. at the
Raglin Community Center in Dunbar.

Denim Day, is a global campaign in which the donning of jeans symbolizes support for
sexual violence prevention and education. Members of the Yellow Jacket Nation are encouraged
to
stand together by wearing jeans on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, for Denim Day, signifying
support
against sexual violence.

West Virginia State University’s (WVSU) College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics will hold its 23rd annual Research Symposium Friday, April 27, to share information and celebrate the scientific research being conducted by its students. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Hamblin Hall on campus.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. — Tired of gloomy days filled with rain or even snow? Shake off that
cabin fever this Saturday at West Virginia State University.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., honored WVSU with a $20,000 gift to support the
University’s campaign to erect a statue and establish an endowed scholarship for WVSU
alumna and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State University (WVSU) will conduct its
sixth
annual Cares Day on Saturday, April 21, when hundreds of volunteers fan out to perform service
work at sites throughout the Kanawha Valley.

West Virginia State University will host a gospel concert to benefit the University’s football program Saturday, April 28, at 6 p.m. at the Milton Performing Arts Center. Dove award-winning musicians Adam Crabb and the Bowling Family will perform.

WVSU has received its fifth consecutive designation as a Tree Campus USA® from
the National Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management.