2022

Today, West Virginia State University announced its participation in the Grow with
Google
HBCU Career Readiness Program. The initiative helps Black college students at over 30
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) prepare for the workforce through digital
skills training and career workshops.

West Virginia State University (WVSU) students, faculty and staff will have a host of
new
dining options available to them with the start of the fall 2022 semester as the university
has
partnered with Aladdin Campus Dining as its new dining services partner.

West Virginia State University (WVSU) has been awarded a highly competitive $650,000
grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food
and Agriculture AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program to conduct agricultural research
that will enhance crop yield.

While many were at home binge-watching “Tiger King,”
“Cheer” or “The Mandalorian” during the COVID-induced
stay-at-home era of 2020, West Virginia State University (WVSU) alumnus Matt Browning was
binging a TV show from a different era.

West Virginia State University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. J.
Paige Carney has named Deborah Williams as Dean of the College of Business and Social
Sciences and Dr. Kerri Steele as Dean of the College of Professional
Studies effective Friday, July 1.

West Virginia State University President Ericke S. Cage has announced several key
appointments to the university’s executive leadership team effective Friday, July 1.

The West Virginia State University (WVSU) Economic Development Center (EDC) will host
“Let’s Move!,” a free low-intensity fitness group that will meet
every Monday through Friday in July from 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Two West Virginia State University students will take part in the launch of a NASA
suborbital rocket at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Friday, June 24.

A West Virginia State University student has been selected as a 2022 Historically Black
Colleges and Universities scholar by the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational
Equity,
Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through HBCUs.

The West Virginia State University campus will be closed Friday, June 17, in observance
of the Juneteenth Holiday.

West Virginia State University is partnering with three other Historically Black
Colleges
and Universities to create an Agriculture Business Innovation Center through a grant from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.

BECKLEY, W.Va. – The West Virginia State University (WVSU) Center for the
Advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (CASTEM) will host WVSU
STEM Lab Camp 2022, an in-person, non-residential camp for rising seventh through ninth
graders
from July 25-29.

Two West Virginia State University (WVSU) alumni already know what happens in the final
episodes of season four of Netflix’s popular “Stranger Things.”
In
fact, Sam Holdren of South Charleston, West Virginia, and Stephen Hanson of Given, West
Virginia, have known since last summer.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – High school juniors and seniors in West Virginia with an
interest in health care have the opportunity to enroll in a free college course this summer
through West Virginia State University (WVSU).