Achievements
WVU receives over $138 million in annual research funding.
The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute—the world’s first institute devoted to the study of human memory—is at WVU.
Syd Peng, professor and former chair of the WVU Department of Mining Engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Researchers in WVU’s radio astronomy research program detected a burst of radio waves that originated 3 billion light-years from Earth.
WVU has the largest crime scene training complex in the world (three crime scene houses and a forensic garage).
Tirzah Mills, a 2007 graduate in chemical engineering, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship worth over $120,000.
WVU is home to one of a few complete puppetry theatre programs in the nation.
WVU’s Wood Science and Technology Program is one of only 22 in the nation and one of only ten accredited by the Society of Wood Science and Technology.
The first-ever remote measurements of the ion temperature in the Earth’s magnetosphere were made by WVU’s plasma physics group.
WVU, Carnegie Mellon University, the FBI, and the National White Collar Crime Center formed the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance to investigate and study online crime.
WVU houses the International Collection of Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, the only large repository of these fungi in the world.
The Department of English is one of only 42 educational programs in the US and the UK in the Folger Consortium.
WVU offers the largest forensic and biometrics internship program in the US.
The Association of American Medical Colleges recognized the WVU School of Medicine as the number-one school in America for effectively serving its community.
WVU was the second academic institution in the world to require electronic submission of theses and dissertations.
In 1997, the “Pride of West Virginia” Mountaineer marching band received the Sudler Trophy, which honors the nation’s outstanding collegiate marching band.
The WVU Ceramics Program offers a unique six-week summer study and travel program in China, in affiliation with Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute. This is the only program of its kind in the US.
WVU’s Extension Service reaches 294,763 West Virginians through its youth, family, agriculture, and workforce programs.
The WVU School of Nursing was the first in the nation to purchase a webcasting system for live webcasting of all graduate nursing courses.
The Sport and Exercise Psychology Program is one of the premier programs in North America in conducting empirical, peer-reviewed research. For the last 11 years at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology National Conference, WVU’s students and faculty have presented more empirical research than any other program worldwide.