Campus News

The Women’s Resource Center (WRC) will host an open house on Tuesday, January 28 from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Center’s new location in Field Hall - Room 3217.

Visitors are invited to tour the new location, meet the WRC staff, enjoy refreshments and participate in fun activities during the open house.

“Our new location offers convenient access to resources for women’s health and reproductive care, menstrual supplies and more, as well as a comfortable lounge area for relaxation, reflection or small group meetings,” said Leslie Tower, director of the Women’s Resource Center. “We are excited to invite students, faculty and staff to stop by and explore all that we have to offer.”

The WRC also connects the campus to healthcare, safety, and community resources. Stay current on the Center’s programs and events on the WRC website.

The WRC lounge is open Tuesday and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. For more information, email wrc@mail.wvu.edu.

The LGBTQ+ Center has relocated to the second floor of the Mountainlair, Room 249. The move aims to provide a more centralized location better suited to meet the needs of the campus community.

“We recognize the importance of identity in the student experience,” said Ellen Rodrigues, director of the LGBTQ+ Center. “We are here to ensure that our students thrive to expand the knowledge and understanding of genders and sexualities across campus and in our communities. We are excited for the opportunity to continue serving students in our new location.”

To ensure efficient snow removal from parking lots, the WVU Parking Management and Facilities Management Roads and Grounds teams have provided the following important reminders to employees and students:

When entering a parking lot where the Roads and Grounds team is actively working to remove snow, please be mindful of snow removal equipment within the lot and park in a cleared parking space when possible.

Due to cold temperatures and icy conditions in the aftermath of snow, in-person classes on the West Virginia University Morgantown Campus will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday (Jan. 21).

This is a late start for classes only. On-campus operations will continue as scheduled.

Faculty, staff and students on all campuses may be unable to log into many important services requiring WVU Login credentials 7 a.m.-noon Sunday, Jan. 26 during quarterly security patching to the single sign-on system. 

West Virginia will see bitterly cold weather beginning Sunday evening (Jan. 19) with temperatures dipping into the single digits or lower, and negative wind chill factors predicted in some areas into next week, according to the latest forecasts.

Now and throughout the winter months, WVU officials urge students, faculty and staff to be prepared to avoid the dangers of frostbite and hypothermia, and to protect residences and reduce the risk of frozen pipes.

The WVU Parking Management team has opened parking lot ST-7, a new short-term paid parking option located at the intersection of Campus Drive and Beechurst Avenue.

The lot offers 34 parking spaces and will only accept ParkMobile payments. Parking rates are set at $1.25 per hour, plus fees. The ParkMobile zone number is 5923.

The new WVU Research Administration Portal is live and successfully processing data. Researchers can email WVU subject-matter experts for questions related to business processes or the new interface, or join one of several virtual office-hour meetings. Click the “Get Help” button at the top of the Research Connect site for a list of contacts and links to the live office hours.

For help with technical issues such as login challenges, error messages or elevated access requests, call the ITS Service Desk at 304-293-4444.

If you have not already done so, please register for training in the new system: https://researchoperations.wvu.edu/research-connect-program/training. This is critical if you are planning a submission for January or February. The Research Office will continue to offer instructor-led training on WRAP throughout the year.

The new system will change the submission processes for proposals, awards, agreements, COI disclosures, and WV CTSI clinical trial registrations and agreements. While the IRB protocol system in WVU+kc won’t change with the launch of WRAP; a new COI disclosure is required for IRB protocols. Please submit a new disclosure in WRAP as soon as possible to avoid delays.

The replacement of WVU+kc is part of the Research Connect workstream in the WVU Modernization Program. This multi-year program also includes a redesign of business processes to improve efficiency.

To ensure the new system is stable and working as designed, the Research Office won’t be accepting enhancement requests to WRAP for at least 60 days. This will ensure that technical resources are available to address unanticipated issues. Please use this form to provide feedback.

In the future, enhancement requests will be submitted through a form in the IT Help Center. Requests will be reviewed by a governance committee and prioritized by a variety of factors, including the scope of the benefit to the research community, the level of complexity, and whether vendor resources are required and need to be scheduled.

The Higher Learning Commission is the institutional accrediting association that comprehensively evaluates our institution, a process that West Virginia University is going through this year. 

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The program is open to resident undergraduate students across the West Virginia University System — including at WVU Morgantown, WVU Institute of Technology and WVU Potomac State College — with a family adjusted gross income of $65,000 or less who annually complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Friday (Jan. 24)  is the last day students can opt out of First Day® Complete, a course materials fulfillment program created in partnership with Barnes and Noble College that lowers the cost of required course materials for undergraduate students.  

Both full and part-time undergraduate students are automatically enrolled in the First Day® Complete program and must take action to unenroll from the program during the opt-out period. Students who opt-out will be responsible for purchasing course materials separately at a non-discounted rate, including all digital materials delivered in eCampus. After opting out, the program charge will be removed from your WVU MyAccount within three business days. If your bill has already been paid in full, the program payment will be refunded to you.