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International students enrolled in West Virginia University’s civil engineering program in Bahrain now have an opportunity to receive tuition assistance thanks to a gift from the Royal University for Women.

RUW, founded by four WVU alumni in 2006, is donating $83,000 to support scholarships for international students, specifically those enrolled in WVU’s civil engineering program in Bahrain. RUW officials say the gift also stands as a challenge to other international alumni of WVU to support the University.  

West Virginia University’s Mountaineer Racing team recently received a $30,000 award from the DENSO North America Foundation in support of the development of an engine dynamometer testing facility. The facility will be used to test and tune the team’s racing engines.

A late West Virginia University alumnus and World War II veteran has left $2.3 million in his will to the University. 

The West Virginia University School of Pharmacy has been a pioneer in the education of pharmacists for over a century.

Donors to the WVU School of Medicine help discover tomorrow’s cures, while transforming West Virginia’s health.

Watch the video above for more from Norman D. Ferrari III, M.D., Vice Dean for Medical Education and Academic Affairs at the WVU School of Medicine.

The Office of Graduate Education and Life has announced the recipients of the year's WVU Foundation Graduate Scholarship awards. 

The Malcolm Davis Living Legacy Fund for Ceramics at West Virginia University will further the work of late esteemed potter Malcolm Davis, thanks to his beloved wife, Judith Davis.

Mr. Davis was almost forty when he took his first pottery class in 1974.  He had held many titles in his life up until that point, including banker, pastor, actuary and political activist.  But it was during that first pottery class that Mr. Davis found what he considered his destiny.  

For more than a decade, geology students at West Virginia University have used the same advanced software used by oil and gas companies worldwide, expanding their marketability for industry jobs.