West Virginia University is an institute of higher learning depending within Morgantown, West Virginia, with off-site campuses around Parkersburg, Montgomery, Keyser and Charleston, West Virginia. WVU was founded inside 1867 as a land-grant university with the assist of the Morrill Act, and was originally known as a "Agricultural College of West Virginia." A university gained its todays title inside 1868. Enrollment for Fall semester of 2004 was 24,453 but has never to return higher by many thou since so. Recent projections keep close at hand enrollment reaching 30,000 prior to a season 2010.

A university offers 170 different majors around Thirteen different colleges. These colleges come a Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry, & Consumer Sciences; the College of Business & Economics, the College of Creative Arts; the School of Dentistry; the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences; the School of Social Work & Public Administration; the College of Engineering & Mineral Resources, the Office of Academic Affairs; the College of Law; the College of Human Resources & Education; the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism; the School of Physical Education; the School of Medicine; the School of Dentistry; the School of Nursing; and the School of Pharmacy. A few one software download, especially Nursing, Pharmacy, Engineering and Education, have most 100% job placement rates fallowing graduation. WVU besides has one of a virtually all respected forensic science programs in the United States.

Since a school's formation, Twenty-five Rhodes Scholars, including current WVU president David C. Hardesty, have been chosen from WVU. There are lone Vi sir thomas more public universities by owning more. A university has too produced Xxvi Goldwater Scholars, Xvi Truman Scholars, Quintuplet members of United states Now's A lot-America College Academic Foremost Team, & Two Udall Scholarship winners.

Institutional Advancements

Additionally to a high technical advancements a university has mass produced, the Health Sciences section & university disbursal presently has all over 800 million dollars within fresh construction including a joint venture between the Johns Hopkins University; The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute[http://www.brni.org BRNI]. A BRNI is the exclusively institute of its form in the globe, & is dedicated to the resole learn of man memory. Construction on the 87 million dollar facility is already afoot, & is scheduled for completion inside late 2006.

A University has receieved growing national recognition for its Forensic Science & engineering software. Approaching projects include an engineering search park, advancements to the NASA/WVU IV&V Facility, as well as combined research with the Institute for Scientific Research [http://www.isr.us/], who is building its national research headquarters within 20 miles of WVU's Morgantown campus in Fairmont, WV (A move from the University of California, at Berkeley).

PRT System

Because a Morgantown campus is split into iii campuses (Business district, Evansdale, Health Sciences) one of a major icons at a school occurs as Personal rapid transit system to link the children.

Around 1974, Boeing began construction of the first major PRT design around Morgantown, West Virginia, designed to shuttle students between WVU's three campuses. A Business district & Evansdale campuses, each in the vale of the Monongahela River, were already fully developed. Because it proved impossible to get any further vale land, WVU expanded to the separate parcel the few miles away on the other side of a ridge.

A WVU PRT has been within continuous operation since 1975, with astir 15,000 riders by the day (when of 2003). A patterns utilizes astir Seventy vehicles, by owning an advertised capacity of Twenty humans both (although the real is supplementary prefer Xv). the models has 5 stations (Walnut, Beechurst, Engineering, Towers, & Health check) & a Quatern mile (Sixer kilometre) track. A vehicles come rubber-tired & line electrified rails. Steam heating keeps a elevated guideway unhampered snow & ice. Virtually all students habitually let it run. This rules was non sold to more web sites because a heated track has proven as well expensive. A technique may at times weaken, eventually these are normally just for astir x proceedings. Otherwise, these are dependable to transport students between Business district, Evansdale & Health Sciences.

A PRT has besides been a recipient of favorable recognition. A National Society of Office Engineers known as a PRT one of a top Tenner engineering accomplishment of 1972, & around 1998 A Future Electric Railway Journal picked a WVU PRT on top Disney Globe's monorail when a better humans mover.

Athletics
A school's sports teams come known as a Mountain climber & compete in the Big East Conference, a member of the NCAA's Division We. the school has teams around a kind of sports & has won many national championships.

Mountainside climber sports were began in 1891 when the class action of students organized a number 1 football at a school within a cow pasture. Since so, from each one sport at WVU has adhered to NCAA rules and regulations. Look at in the image below for the listings of sports offered likewise when more trading tools (when of 2004):

Baseball
Men's Basketball
Women's Basketball
Cross Country
Football
Gymnastics
Rifle
Men's Soccer
Women's Soccer
Men's Swimming
Women's Swimming
Women's Tennis
Women's Track
Women's Volleyball
Wrestling
School Traditions
One of a reasons WVU has such a heavy history inside athletics is maybe because of the numerous traditions at the university. Many of the school traditions & icons come utilized beneath: Flying WV
A logotype of a university is referred to as the "Flying WV," which is one of a virtually all popular things to emerge from either a Don Nehlen era of Mountain climber football. A logotype wwhen quickly adopted as a official university logotype.

The Mountaineer
A Mountawithin climber was adopted in 1890 as the official school mascot. The recently Mountain climber is selected annually per school's senior honorary, A Mountain. a fresh Mountain climber is given the customised tailored outfit & carries a traditional rifle which is fired to mark the opening of sporting cases. Male Mountaineers traditionally develop the beard & have on the coonskin cap.

Take Me Home, Country Roads
A John Denver song Take Me Home, United states Roads, which has be the de facto anthem for the state, hwhen too been adopted by WVU as its unofficial theme song. These are usually played at the most page sporting cases too when more occasions in campus. John Denver himself showed higher around 1980 to help dedicate a recently Mountaineer Field, currently known as Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, & lead the crowd inside Take Me At home, United states Roads. These come today the portion of the freshly tradition: Fallowing a triumph, fans are encouraged to stay in the stands & sing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" along using a eleven.

The Pride of West Virginia

A WVU Marching Band, nicknamed a Pride of West Virginia, was formed around 1901 as an completely-male ROTC band. It perform at each residence football & produce numerous more appearances off and on campus throughout a month. In the period of their pre-game performance, it traditionally form an outline of the state of West Virginia as well as a Flying WV, when swimming United states Roads, Hail West Virginia, & Fight Mountaineers.

Notable Alumni
Ret. Gen. Earl E. Anderson - Marine Corp General Allen Appel - writer Phillip D. Beall - WWII & Korean War soldier & winner of a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, and two Bronze Stars Terry Bowden - ABC Television Sports Analyst Tommy Bowden - Head Football Coach at Clemson University Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke - Acclaimed Shakespeare scholar and prof at Yale, Cornell & the University of London. Marc Bulger - St. Louis Rams Quarterback Gale Catlett - winningest coach in WVU basketball history John Chambers - President and CEO of Cisco Systems Jay Chattaway - a Star Trek music score writer Stephen Coonts - New York Days bestselling author William Harrison Courtney - special help to President Clinton Brig. Gen. Frank Kendall Everest, Jr - test pilot & pioneer of rocket aircraft Gen. Robert Fogelsong - US Air Inflict HQ vice chief of staff Bucky Guth - Minnesota Twins player David C. Hardesty - President of the University Kathleen M. Hawk - Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Jeff Hostetler - Washington Redskins & New York Giants Quarterback Sen. Harley M. Kilgore - chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization during World War II Fuzzy Knight - writer of the WVU Fight Song and United states American Actor Don Knotts - television and movie actor Blanche Lazzell - artist William Leonhart - former ambassador to Tanzania & Yugoslavia Joe Manchin - The 34th Governor of West Virginia Jon McBride - astronaut Alan Mollohan J.D. - United States Congressman Herb Morrison - announcer for Chicago station WLS who described the Hindenburg German airship bursting into fire. Todd Sauerbrun-NFL punter Mike Vanderjagt - Indianapolis Colts placekicker Charles M. Vest - President Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Jerome Alan "Jerry" West - WVU & NBA basketball player

WVU students staged a riot against the National Guard in the spring of 1970, shortly after a shootings at Kent State.

Within early August 2005, Jessica Lynch, a reclaimed prisoner of war in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, announced that she would be attending West Virginithe University; she received a fully scholarship.

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