Academics

The University community is invited to a film screening of A Road to Home, an award-winning film that follows the lives of six houseless LGBTQ+ youth in New York City over an 18-month period. Hosted by the LGBTQ+ Center, the screening is part of the Spring 2025 Human Rights Film Series.

The screening is set for Wednesday, April 2 from 7-9 p.m. in 4002 Field Hall. Admission is free and open to all. A discussion featuring panelists from the campus and community will follow.

Are you a WVU Libraries user? Whether you visit our spaces, use our research databases or take advantage of other library services, we want to hear from you! 

Health Sciences Center career workshops will be offered throughout April by Robert Barricelli, career development specialist for the WVU Health Sciences Center.

Graduate students looking to boost their productivity and connect with a community of writers are invited to attend the ADVANCE Center’s weekly writing accountability group.

The group meets every Wednesday from 12 – 2 p.m. in the ADVANCE Center - 2202 Field Hall and on Zoom. Attendees are encouraged to bring current writing projects to work on, such as grant proposals, articles, books and more. Register for the weekly writing group.

Students are encouraged to join more than 400 top leaders at Focus Forward on April 22 at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place. The statewide conference will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., followed by a special reception from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. to celebrate the legacy of President Gordon Gee. Registration is free but required to attend both the conference and/or the reception.

WVU undergraduate students can earn up to five credits through this fully online, three-week accelerated learning option from May 12- 30.

Do you consider yourself a smart financial decision maker? Are you interested in what motivates behavior? You can earn cash by signing up for our study exploring the behavioral aspects of information sharing within a company.

Attend a session from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday (March 25)  or Wednesday (March 26) in Reynolds Hall, Room 4006.

Undergraduate students across the WVU System, including those at Potomac State College and WVU Tech, are encouraged to complete a short survey about their academic advising experience.

The survey is anonymous and will help gauge student satisfaction, improve the advising experience and shape professional development opportunities for advisers so they can continue to provide quality academic and advising support.

The Student Evaluation of Advising Survey, which will be sent via MIX email, will be available March 14 through April 4.

For questions, email advisinghelp@mail.wvu.edu.

The Department of English will host the second annual Writing for Community and Cultural Engagement Showcase on Thursday, April 17, from 4-6 p.m.

The WVU School of Public Health is partnering with the Monongalia County Child Advocacy Center on their new “Build the Bounce” campaign to create a school-wide kickball tournament to raise money and create awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.

This campaign was created to combat the over $200,000 potential cut in funding to the Monongalia County Child Advocacy Center, which if not raised by the end of the year, will be detrimental to the number of resources the organization will be able to offer to the community. The “Build the Bounce” campaign emphasizes the resilience of children who have faced abuse, neglect and other traumas, highlighting their ability to bounce back with the right support and resources.

The Center for Community Engagement's annual Excellence in Community Engagement Awards honor extraordinary accomplishments in engaged learning and community impact. The recognition criteria are founded upon demonstration of the Mountaineer Core Values of Service, Curiosity, Respect, Accountability and Appreciation. 

In honor of Women’s History Month, on March 28, West Virginia University Libraries’ Art in the Libraries will host the first Feminist Activist Artist in Residence Catron Booker for a virtual presentation and viewing of her forthcoming project, "Affrilachian Freedom Dreaming: Honoring Dr. Ancella Bickley." 

Each semester, the ADVANCE Center supports WVU graduate students through professional development and networking opportunities, workshops and resources focused on dissertation and research support, identifying fellowship and tenure-track opportunities and more.

The ADVANCE team brings experience from various disciplines and units across campus to offer data-driven and outcome-based approaches to achieving individual goals. Graduate students from all academic majors are welcome.

Students interested in learning more about the WVU School of Medicine’s Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Master’s degree are invited to attend a virtual open house on March 27 at 4 p.m. via Zoom. 

At noon on April 8, WVU doctoral students are warmly invited to celebrate Research Week and Graduate Student Appreciation Week with a Zoom lunch-and-learn about opportunities to write for The Conversation US, a nonprofit publisher that brings scholarly research and expertise to the news cycle, helping academics speak directly to thousands of news readers.

WVU doctoral students who have written for The Conversation will share their experiences, and The Conversation's team will overview the process of pitching and writing.

Includes a Q&A. Register to receive the Zoom link the morning of the presentation.

Sponsored by WVU Strategic Communications and Marketing, Graduate Education and Life, and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Contact micaela.morrissette@mail.wvu.edu with questions.

On Monday, March 31 and Tuesday April 1, the Higher Education Learning Commission will be on WVU’s Morgantown campus for its 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation site visit.

Site team members will be hosting a series of public forums aimed at different campus audiences, and faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in the appropriate session(s) to demonstrate their pride in the institution and investment in the accreditation process. 

Graduate students: Consider taking C&I 693A (Research in Appalachian Contexts) in the fall (2025)

This 3-credit course explores interdisciplinary research methodologies and methods that have been used by interdisciplinary scholars to support critical and community-based research in Appalachian contexts.

The course will use guest speakers, readings and film study/media analysis, optional site visits and student projects to explore topics like land acknowledgement and Native American culture; community inequalities; gender-diverse youth; mental health-stress, trauma and resilience; quilting as mutual aid; foodways; language and dialects; Black voice and oral histories; flooding and displacement; environmental sustainability; prison economy; and education.

Specific research approaches may include critical discourse analysis, critical participatory action research, critical place inquiry, arts-based research, material culture studies, historical methods, mixed methods, and others.

Questions? Melissa.Sherfinski@mail.wvu.edu

Students, at all levels, are encouraged to participate in CliftonStrengths-Coaching Sessions through the WVU Purpose Center. In these free, 45-60 minute sessions, you can learn more about your individual strengths, how they work together to help you be successful, how they might get in your way, and how you can apply them holistically. You will meet individually with a Gallup® certified strengths coach in-person or virtually. You will get to choose what you want to learn about your strengths and how you want to apply them. This time is dedicated for you to invest in yourself. If you haven't taken the CliftonStrengths Assessment yet, the Purpose Center can also provide free access to that tool for students.

Consider taking EDUC 232: Data Literacy in the fall, 2025 semester. The course provides students with skills for thinking critically about and with data. Students will analyze and critique data-based claims, consider the representation and use of data in a variety of contexts, interpret and produce methods of describing and visualizing data, and engage in data-informed decision making.

EDUC 232: Data Literacy:

The West Virginia University School of Dentistry invites pre-dental college students to visit campus for Destination Dentistry on Saturday, April 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Destination Dentistry is a full-day open house at the WVU Health Sciences Center that provides prospective students with the opportunity to experience a day as a student in the Doctor of Dental Surgery program.