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A West Virginia University alumna is expanding opportunities for future students to gain hands-on research experience with gifts to her alma mater totaling $2.15 million.
Read More: WVU alumna’s gifts totaling $2.15M expand support for student research
West Virginia University today (May 13) announced that Ali Rezai, M.D., executive chair of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI), has received the 2025 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
More than 10 years after moving away from the Mountain State, an Ohio couple is strengthening their commitment to central West Virginia with a $100,000 gift to expand local outreach and experiential learning opportunities via the West Virginia University Center for Community Engagement, a unit under the WVU Division for Land-Grant Engagement.
Read More: Ohio couple aims to uplift central West Virginia via $100K gift to WVU
Read More: $75K WesBanco gift advances experiential learning at WVU Chambers College
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Forty years ago, a small group of West Virginia women organized the inaugural Spring Gala to benefit cancer care at what is now the WVU Cancer Institute. E. Gordon Gee attended the event during his first stint as the University’s president from 1981 to 1985.
Read More: WVU Cancer Institute honors Gee, Erickson, and Rowe
Read More: Top WVU seniors named, 8 honored with 2025 Order of Augusta