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New student teams of anchors, beat reporters, producers and directors for the spring 2024 semester have been named for “WVU News” and “Mountaineer Playbook.”

The Art Museum of West Virginia University has received an Access for All Grant from the Art Bridges Foundation to fund educational projects through the next three years.

Advertising and public relations students in Elizabeth Oppe’s fall 2023 capstone course crafted campaigns for three different nonprofit organizations: Get Moving!, GATC Health and the NorthHills Association. The course operates like a firm where students have direct contact with clients and produce tangible results and deliverables on a deadline.

West Virginia University announced that the new college that merges the College of Creative Arts (CCA), the Reed College of Media and three programs from the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design – Design Studies; Fashion, Dress and Merchandising; and Interior Architecture – will be called the College of Creative Arts and Media, effective July 1, 2024.

Graduation Year: 2022

Major and Minor: MFA Acting

Sierra Worden, a journalism senior, is the recipient of the 2024 West Virginia University Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship. This award is given annually to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated an active interest and meaningful involvement in areas of human rights, civil rights, social justice and/or world peace, or other activities exemplary or reflective of the ideals and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

WVU Reed College of Media alumnus Jeff Geisler returned to campus to host an advertising and public relations agency simulation that was open to all majors and local high school students and sponsored by the WVU Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).