You had a sweet decade, Mountaineers.
41,636 Flying WV cookies baked
You went to the Big Dance.
2010 Final Four
NCAA Rifle Championships
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
Women’s Soccer NCAA Championship Runner-Up
Olympic Medalists
Women’s Air Rifle: Ginny Thrasher, Gold, United States
Women’s Soccer: Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence, Bronze, Canada
And outer space.
Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction
September 14, 2015, at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Read More on WVU Today: Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s predictionLaunched in December 2018, West Virginia’s first satellite, STF-1, housed WVU-designed subsystems and experiments.
Read Story in WVU Magazine: Meet STF-1You got that big promotion.
R1 research university, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, 2015 and 2018
Read More on WVU Today: WVU maintains R1 status, ranking alongside most prestigious research universities Watch the Video: Together We R1You fell in love.
Over 20 million total video views
Falling in Love With WVU
Most-watched video
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You were really good listeners.
Most-heard Sparked podcast: Through the Math Forest
Listen on Soundcloud: Through the Math ForestYou rocked the buckskins.
Rebecca Durst
2009-10
Brock Burwell
2010-11
Jonathan Kimble
2012-13
Michael Garcia
2014-15
Troy Clemons
2016-17
Trevor Kiess
2018
Timmy Eads
2019
And no one’s looked better in a hairnet.
900,000+ service hours
You found your calling.
52,342 degrees awarded,
including an RBA to Anthony Brutto, age 94, in May 2015.
205 prestigious scholarships (Goldwater, Truman, Fulbright, etc.). That’s 64% of WVU’s total.
You diapered sheep in the name of science …
Read Story in WVU Magazine: The Man Helping Save America’s SheepAnd you couldn’t stop posting about it.
23,000+ social posts.
800,000 followers/subscribers/likes
You were always in the know.
Top WVUToday Stories
12 Issues of WVU Magazine
You came together as a family …
A family of distinct campuses united by a single mission.
WVU Morgantown, 2010-18
152,648 applied
44,511 enrolled
200,000+ alumni in 135 countries
And you did a bit of remodeling.
Evansdale 2012
Evansdale 2015
You threw an 11-month-long birthday party,
View Website: WVU 150th Anniversaryand added 10,878 favorite pics (like these) to the family album.
You got serious about your health.
WVU School of Public Health — West Virginia’s first — opens in 2012
Construction begins on 10-story tower dedicated to WVU Medicine Children’s
WVU Medicine performs the first heart transplant surgery in West Virginia
WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute first in U.S. to use deep brain stimulation to fight opioid addiction
You trained very good boys (and girls).
Students raise and train service dogs through a partnership with Hearts of Gold.
You made new friends.
But kept old pals in your heart.
Could it possibly get sweeter in the ’20s? Oh yes, it can.
