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Late West Virginia University graduate Brent P. Evans threw caution to the wind after his initial battle with blood cancer, launching a winter sports and music festival that has raised close to $1 million over the past decade for cancer research and patient care.

Following Evans’ passing in 2017, his friends established the Live Like Brent Foundation to carry on his memory and continue his work to fight cancer. Now, the Pennsylvania-based organization is partnering with the WVU Cancer Institute and WVU Athletics for a football fundraiser leading up to WVU’s Sept. 10 matchup with the University of Kansas.

^{The Dollars for Disaster relief effort from WVU’s Center for Community Engagement serves as a hub for WVU-related relief efforts in the aftermath of disasters, including supply drives like this one organized following the 2016 flood in central and southeastern West Virginia.}  

West Virginia University is stepping up to support residents affected by flooding in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia with the relaunch of Dollars for Disaster, a campus-wide disaster response effort organized through the Center for Community Engagement.