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West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia.Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser, and clinical campuses for the university's medical and school at Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston and ...
History of West Virginia University. West Virginia University's first president, Rev. Alexander Martin. He was a Methodist minister from Scotland who served from the founding of the school in 1867 until 1875. West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Founded as an agricultural college ...
Presidents. Alexander Martin, 1867–1875 [ 2] John Rhey Thompson, 1877–1881. William Lyne Wilson, 1882–1883 [ 3] Eli Marsh Turner, 1885–1893. James Lincoln Goodknight, 1895–1897. Jerome Hall Raymond, 1897–1901. Daniel Boardman Purinton, 1901–1911. Thomas Edward Hodges, 1911–1914.
In addition, West Virginia has two historically black colleges and universities that are members of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund: Bluefield State University and West Virginia State University. [10] [11] West Virginia has three medical schools: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, West Virginia School of Osteopathic ...
West Virginia UniversityInstitute of Technology. / 37.77611°N 81.18417°W / 37.77611; -81.18417. West Virginia University Institute of Technology ( WVU Tech, WVIT, WVU Beckley, or West Virginia Tech) is a public college in Beckley, West Virginia. It is a divisional campus of West Virginia University .
medicine .hsc .wvu .edu. The West Virginia University School of Medicine is the professional school for the study of medicine and other health professions at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The medical school was established in 1902 as the first such institution in the state of West Virginia, and remains one of only three ...
Ephraim F. Morgan – 16th Governor of West Virginia; Matthew M. Neely – 22nd Governor of West Virginia; Asra Nomani – former Wall Street Journal reporter, author and Islamic reform and feminism activist; Corey Lee Palumbo – West Virginia Senate, District 17, 2009 – present and West Virginia House of Representatives 2003–2009
The West Virginia University football program traces its origin back to November 28, 1891, when its first team fell to Washington & Jefferson 72–0 on a converted cow pasture. [3] Despite its humble beginning, West Virginia enjoyed a 25–23–3 overall record prior to 1900, which proved to be a fruitful century of Mountaineer football.