West Virginia University
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| motto | Add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge |
| founding | 1867 |
| Sponsorship | public |
| place | Morgantown (West Virginia) , United States |
| president | C. Peter Magrath |
| Students | 28,898 (2009) |
| Employee | 9436 |
| including professors | 1870 |
| Annual budget | approx. $ 380 million (2004) |
| University sports | NCAA Division I , Big 12 Conference |
| Website | www.wvu.edu |
The West Virginia University (WVU) is a state university in Morgantown in the US state of West Virginia .
In the fall of 2007, 28,113 students from all states and 89 other nations were enrolled, almost equally divided between both sexes (51% male, 49% female). A total of 25 Rhodes scholars have studied at the university; This makes the WVU one of the top 10 state universities in terms of the number of scholarship holders.
The university has a US-wide known program for forensics .
Locations
In addition to the main campus in Morgantown, there are other locations in Parkersburg and Keyser . The university also includes the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery and a campus for medicine and dentistry at the Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston .
West Virginia University in Morgantown has three campuses, which are connected by its own transport system, a driverless monorail called PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) . The names of the campuses are: Downtown Campus, Evansdale Campus and Health Sciences Campus.
Sports
The WVU sports teams are called the Mountaineers . The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference .
basketball
The basketball team of the Mountaineers has achieved very good results, especially in the time with the German Johannes "Joe" Herber (2002-2006) achieved some successes: In 2005 he lost in the regional final ( Elite Eight ) the team only in overtime, in 2006 they reached the Sweet Sixteen . In 2007 she could not qualify for the NCAA championship, but she won the NIT championship. In 2008, she surprisingly reached the Sweet Sixteen again after beating the big favorites Duke University in the previous round . She lost in the Xavier University's Sweet Sixteen Match in extra time.
football
The 2007-08 football season was a dramatic event for Mountaineers fans. On the last day of the season they lost on their own court against the Pittsburgh Panthers ( University of Pittsburgh ) in the 100 Backyard Brawl with 9:13 and missed the chance to play in the BCS National Championship Game of the Bowl Championship Series . The next bad news followed when head coach Rich Rodriguez announced his move to the University of Michigan . So now a new coach had to be found within four weeks, as despite losing to Pittsburgh, the Mountaineers as the winner of the Big East had been invited to the so-called Fiesta Bowl (another Bowl from the BCS series) against the University of Oklahoma to play. The new coach was a local, Bill Stewart, who immediately achieved what everyone thought was impossible and brought the Fiesta Bowl to Morgantown.
Personalities
- Tavon Austin - American football player
- William Bishop - actor
- Kadeisha Buchanan - Canadian soccer player
- Jay Chattaway - composer of numerous film scores for Star Trek
- Stephen Coonts - New York Times author
- Edward Etzel - marksman, Olympic champion 1984, professor at the WVU
- Johannes "Joe" Herber - German basketball player
- Chuck Howley - American football player
- Sam Huff - American football player
- Don Knotts - actor
- Joe Manchin - The 34th Governor of West Virginia
- Jerome Alan "Jerry" West and Rod Hundley - WVU and NBA basketball players
- Mohammed Shabir - Palestinian scholar and candidate for Prime Minister of the Palestinian Territories
- Geno Smith - American football player
- Joe Stydahar - American football player and coach
- Virginia Thrasher - marksman, 2016 Olympic champion
- Steve Harvey - entertainer and presenter
Web links
Coordinates: 39 ° 38 ′ 9 ″ N , 79 ° 57 ′ 16.3 ″ W.