Reaching Beyond wvu
We’re not only educating, we’re transforming minds and creating solutions for our community, our state and our world. Our centers offer valuable programs to help students, business leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers across the state, nation and the world.
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West Virginians know that our home is brimming with tremendous resources and opportunities, but the time has come for West Virginia to think differently about innovation and job creation to move into a future fueled by start-ups and entrepreneurship.
Vantage Ventures
Backed by world-class technology leaders, fortune class companies, and venture investors, Vantage Ventures is an initiative to launch high impact, scalable businesses that tackle complex challenges.
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Rising West Virginia entrepreneurs own their futures during Bridging Innovation Week
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WVU to hold entrepreneurial contest through new Seed WV program
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West Virginia University’s Encova Center announces fall 2020 Grow with Google webinars as a resource for state businesses
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Encova center
The Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship promotes entrepreneurial education,
community engagement, and economic development for our community and state through
K-12 programming, higher education initiatives and business partnerships.
Launch Lab
The LaunchLab applied innovation center provides WVU students and faculty with a community-based center offering hands-on idea development support, education, mentorship, prototyping facilities, resources, and connections to innovative entrepreneurs across the State of West Virginia.
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Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship promotes entrepreneurial education, community engagement and economic development for our community and state through K-12 programming, higher education initiatives and business partnerships.
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Since the 1940s, the BBER’s mission has been to serve the people of West Virginia by providing the state’s business and policymaking communities with reliable data and rigorous applied economic research and analysis that enables the state’s leaders to design better business practices and public policies.
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Fostering close relationships among academia, business, and government in the United States and China.
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Our vision is for West Virginia students, citizens, policymakers, and the business community to understand the roles that the principles and institutions of a free society play in creating widely shared prosperity.
Learn MoreCenter for Financial Literacy and Education
The Center for Financial Literacy and Education was established in 2015 to promote financial literacy throughout the state. The CFLE created a central mechanism for the outreach, programmatic, and research specific initiatives involving financial literacy and education within the college. Our mission is to bring awareness, resources, programs, and support to constituents across the region that will initiate change agents to promote the economic health and prosperity of the citizens of the State of West Virginia.
Learn MoreForensic Business Studies
The College of Business and Economics, mostly through collaborations with the WVU Forensic Science Initiative in the Research Office, has created a range of programs that fill previously unmet needs in the forensic community. They fall under two broad concepts: The business of forensics and the forensics of business.
Learn MoreData Driven WV
Data Driven WV connects organizations, including business, non-profits and government entities, with WVU students and faculty to provide data-driven, technical insights and solutions. We are bridging the skills gap in our West Virginia communities through service-oriented outreach, community projects and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity and data analytics.
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I’m Pareera Uqaily, a senior double majoring in accounting and management information systems (MIS) with a minor in business data analytics. Throughout my time at West Virginia University, I have interacted with my peers in various different roles and settings.
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Chris Ramezan Talks Mental Health, Burnout in Cybersecurity
In today's society, more professionals are experiencing mental health and burnout in their careers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WVU student veteran finds support, community through national fellowship
A West Virginia University student veteran is in elite company as one of only 18 women chosen for the 2022 Focus Forward Fellowship, a prestigious year-long mentoring program designed to support women with military connections.
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West Virginia University’s Brad and Alys Smith Outdoor Economic Development Collaborative celebrates cycling as a driver of community wellness and economic development with three events — grand openings and a groundbreaking— for new biking facilities in Monongalia County.
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West Virginia in Bloom: WVU students help small businesses grow
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Fall 2022 Department Digest and Awards
Our faculty and staff are always doing amazing things. View the latest Department Digest to see what they have been up to and catch what they’re saying in the media.
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The West Virginia University Foundation is in a strong financial position to carry out its mission to support the University’s students, but President and CEO Cindi Roth sees growing needs in the coming years requiring new investments.
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WVU study finds control, fear and shame tactics don’t work for effective messaging
Public messages should show respect for individual freedoms and personal choice and leave the politics at the door, if communicators expect compliance, according to researchers at West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics.
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