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The Solar Swing-November 9

Mountaineers for Solar and the Sierra Student Coalition are teaming up to bring you "The Solar Swing". The event will be located at 123 Pleasant Street on November 7 starting at 7p.m., and will showcase local bands and art-vendors, along with a $5 entry fee. Proceeds will be used to fundraise for Solar power throughout the WVU campus, to promote a more sustainable present and future! All are welcome!

For more information please contact Elise Vuiller at: emv00004@mix.wvu.edu, or (304) 914-0438!

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Fall back an hour this weekend

The end to daylight saving time is just around the corner, meaning clocks in most parts of the U.S. will "fall back" one hour on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024.

Daylight saving time, when we turned our clocks forward one hour, began on March 10 this year. Daylight saving ends on Nov. 3, when clocks get turned back one hour. 

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WVU Esports announces Game Changers Alumni Speaker Series

WVU Esports has announced the launch of its Game Changers: Alumni Achievements Series, a speaker series featuring a lineup of University alumni and experts from the esports industry and other related professional fields. 

The series will kick off at 1 p.m. Friday (Nov. 8) and will feature an online discussion with Rebecca Burkhardt, a 2014 graduate of the Sport Management program. Burkhardt currently serves as a senior manager for strategic programs with LIV Golf, and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from her time working across the sports industry. 

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Coming soon: MIX email accounts may no longer be used for personal Zoom accounts

In the coming weeks, a security change will be made to prevent students and former students from using their WVU-issued email accounts to create or maintain personal accounts on Zoom. Anyone currently using an @mix account for a personal Zoom account will be required to either consolidate the account under their WVU address, change the personal account to a personal email address, or terminate the Zoom personal account.

Information Technology Services will announce the date for this change to the main WVU Zoom domain once it is determined. After that date, anyone using @mix or @mail accounts for personal Zoom accounts will be prompted at sign-in to either join the WVU Zoom account or change their email address. You can defer a decision three times. After that, you must choose to join the WVU account or change the email address associated with your personal Zoom account.

Please direct questions to the ITS Help Desk at ITSHelp@mail.wvu.edu.

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Spring 2025 Student Health Insurance Waiver available through Dec. 20

The Spring 2025 Student Health Insurance Waiver is available now at studentinsurance.wvu.edu, with a deadline for completion of Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. Eligible students without an approved student health insurance waiver on file will be automatically enrolled in the WVU Aetna Student Health insurance plan at a cost of $1,666 assessed to the student’s account for the spring semester.

Students with an approved fall 2024 waiver on file have opted out of the WVU Aetna student health insurance plan for the entire 2024-2025 academic year and do not need to complete the spring waiver. For information about the WVU Aetna student health insurance plan, please review the 2024/2025 Plan Design and Benefits Summary.

Note: The student insurance fee is based on the number of days in the coverage period; this is a change from prior years and results in differing premiums for the fall and spring/summer coverage periods. For planning purposes, please be aware that the fall 2024 WVU Aetna health insurance premium will be $1,073, and the spring/summer 2025 premium will be $1,666 based on the number of days in each coverage period.

Contact the WVU Student Insurance Office at sio@mail.wvu.edu if you need assistance or have questions.

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Register: Third set of informational sessions on new Research Administration portal starts Nov. 6

Members of the WVU research community are encouraged to sign up for Set 3 of Bits & Bytes, a series of informational sessions about the new WVU Research Administration Portal (WRAP). This series runs Wednesday, Nov. 6 through Wednesday, Jan. 8 and will provide information on freeze dates for submissions in WVU+kc, as well as training opportunities and support.

The Research Office is offering these Zoom sessions in preparation for the Jan. 13, 2025, launch of Grants, Agreements and Conflict of Interest (COI) in WRAP.

The new system and processes will support the growth of WVU research and reduce administrative burden by streamlining reviews and approvals, decreasing duplicative data entry, improving the visibility of submission status, keeping all correspondence in a single system, and ensuring compliance is built in at every step. Reviewers and compliance staff will also have more transparency in submissions, enabling them to be more proactive with PIs.

For the latest information, please visit the Research Connect website at https://researchoperations.wvu.edu/research-connect-program.

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Celebrate Halloween and Dia de los Muertos with Dining Services

WVU Dining Services invites students to join the annual Halloween Spooktacular on Thursday (Oct. 31) at all three dining halls. Please note that dining halls will close at 2 p.m. for event preparations and will reopen at 4:30 p.m. to serve dinner.

In addition, Adobo Cantina at Café Evansdale will host a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration in collaboration with WVU student organization Mi Gente from Thursday (Oct. 31) through Saturday (Nov. 2). 

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WVU plans bell-ringing ceremony to remember students Nov. 1

West Virginia University will hold a bell-ringing ceremony, coordinated by the Office of Campus and Community Life and Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, on Friday, Nov. 1, in remembrance of McKenzie Wilt and Scott Saylor.

Wilt, a senior animal and nutritional sciences major from Oakland, Maryland, died on June 15; and Saylor, a doctoral student in biochemistry and molecular medicine from Washington, D.C., died on July 14.

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Live virtual training on the new WVU Research Administration Portal starts Nov. 18

With the Jan. 13 launch of the new WVU Research Administration Portal (WRAP) just two months away, the Research Office invites faculty, staff and students to register for a training session on Zoom [ https://researchoperations.wvu.edu/research-connect-program/training].

The series starts Monday, Nov. 18 and will continue through Friday, March 28 to prepare for the launch of Grants, Agreements and Conflict of Interest (COI).

If you anticipate making a submission in January or February, we strongly encourage you to register as soon as possible. Sessions range from one to two hours, depending on the topic. The Research Office will continue to offer instructor-led training on WRAP throughout the year, but on a less frequent cadence after March 2025.

Please watch your inbox for separate announcements from WVCTSI about training related to the COE Review/Clinical Trial Agreement process in WRAP.

For the latest information on the Research Connect program, please visit  https://researchoperations.wvu.edu/research-connect-program.

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