Late Night Dawg Bites: Rewarding Kyle Chandler, Missing Justin Houston, and Welcoming West Virginia?

WVU is classified as a Research University (High Research Activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Twenty-five WVU students have received Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford; few public universities have produced more Rhodes Scholars than WVU.

WVU ranks nationally for prestigious scholarships – 25 Rhodes Scholars, 21 Truman Scholars, 33 Goldwater Scholars, two British Marshall Scholars, two Morris K. Udall Scholars, five USA Today All-USA College Academic First Team Members (and 11 academic team honorees), eight Boren Scholars, five Gilman Scholars, three Department of Homeland Security Scholars, two Fulbright Scholars, and one Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognized the scope and success of WVU’s impact by selecting the University for the Community Engagement Classification, putting WVU in the 6 percent of higher education institutions that Carnegie recognizes for engagement out of all U.S. institutions. It is the only institution in West Virginia the foundation recognizes for its community engagement.

WVU has earned the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification. Only 6% of all universities have.

WVU was ranked in the 2011 top 20 "Best Places to Work in Academia" by The Scientist magazine—1 of only 2 land-grant institutions and just 4 comprehensive universities in total made the list.

Hayley Leight, a senior biology major from Bridgeport, is the first WVU student to win a Fulbright Scholarship in 11 years. She’s spending a year in Indonesia teaching English to middle and high school students.

WVU has more Rhodes Scholars than any other Big East school.

The WVU Debate Team finished in the top ten in the national Cross Examination Debate Assoc. tournament, its best finish ever.

The WVU 4-H club was named the 2011 National Collegiate 4-H Club of the Year.

Engineering major Cody White is WVU’s first student to win a National Security Education Program’s David L. Boren Scholarship as a freshman. WVU has had five Boren Scholars in the last three years.

Shawna Mullenax, is WVU’s 5th Gilman Scholar. She plans to study in Bolivia, working with children in service learning project with Amizade.

Morgantown is ranked by Southern Living as one of the south’s best college towns.

The College of Law ranked 15th nationally in Best Law Schools in Public Interest in the Winter 2011 edition of Pre Law Magazine.

The Dance Team returned from Daytona, Florida, with their second consecutive championship title from the National Dance Alliance Collegiate Championship 2011.

Professor Anne F. Cronin, PhD, won a Fulbright Specialist grant to help faculty at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, design an undergraduate degree program for occupational therapists.

The College of Business and Economics has been ranked as number 90 in the Best Undergraduate Business Schools of 2011, in the Bloomberg Businessweek.

WVU’s combined varsity athletic teams have an academic progress rate score of 974. The APR is based on eligibility and retention of student-athletes over a four-year period. The NCAA average score is 970. WVU had six teams with perfect 1,000 scores: cross country, rifle, women’s soccer, rowing, men’s soccer, and tennis.

Physics doctoral student Justin Elfritz is one of six graduate students nationwide chosen to participate in the first Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School.

Biology graduate student Eli Rodgers-Melnick has been chosen to attend the 2011 61st annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Germany.

Darryl Talley, a four year starter for WVU football from 1978-1982, was named to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Interpol invited WVU to participate in its Forensic Science Symposium in Lyon, France, demonstrating the University’s reputation as a leader in the forensics industry.

WVU Healthcare was named one of the most digital hospitals in the nation by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Kerri Phillips, an aerospace engineering PhD candidate, received an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International, which works to advance the status of women worldwide.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has honored 18 WVU faculty as West Virginia Professors of the Year.

In March 2011, a team of WVU chemistry researchers won first place at the Annual Society of Toxicology meeting in Washington, D.C. The team of faculty and students came in first out of 2,000 applicants.

USA Today’s Guide to Green Living included WVU’s green efforts in an article in the May 2011 issue. It noted the University’s efforts to compile a guide to courses that cover sustainability.

The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department was ranked 22 by the National Science Foundation for R&D expenditures in fiscal year 2009.

WVU’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design has been chosen as a Peace Corps Master’s International partner, and will participate in an innovative program that allows graduate students to pursue a master of science degree while also completing an international service internship with the Peace Corps.

Dr. Nick Wu, an associate professor in Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, recently received two National Institute of Health grants to develop nano-biotechnology to diagnose cancer and toxicity of nanoparticles.

The Daily Athenaeum was a third-place finalist in the National Society of Professional Journalists’ Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper contest.

Katherine Bomkamp, a freshman political science major from Waldorf, Md., is the first WVU student to be inducted into the National Museum of Education’s National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors.

The USDA awarded WVU nearly $5 million to help tackle childhood obesity.

Physics major Scott Cushing, WVU’s 33rd Goldwater Scholar, won a research grant from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program so he can continue his research on surface plasmon resonance.

More than two dozen WVU graduate programs were ranked by U.S. News & World Report as among the best in the country: primary care, pharmacy, industrial and manufacturing engineering, rehabilitation counseling, and clinical psychology were among the top 50, with another twelve in the top 100.

WVU has made the most progress of any of the nation’s flagship universities in providing access for low-income and underrepresented minority students, according to a report from The Education Trust.

Gina Damato, a senior in public relations, oversaw a campaign by American Eagle Outfitters that targeted her fellow students. An article in USA Today highlighted her part in how companies now market to college students.

The WVU School of Medicine has been recognized as the 7th-best school of medicine in the country for rural medicine, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 edition of "America’s Best Graduate Schools." It also placed in the top 50 for primary care.

The Sport Management Program in the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences was rated as one of the top 15 graduate programs in sport management by SportBiz magazine.

The School of Nursing’s online doctor of nursing practice program is one of only four in the country that is accredited. The School of Nursing’s master’s program – also an online program – recently was named one of the best graduate programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report magazine.

WVU’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design has been chosen as a Peace Corps Master’s International partner, and will participate in an innovative program that allows graduate students to pursue a master of science degree while also completing an international service internship with the Peace Corps.

A WVU project to seal off transportation tunnels during a terrorist attack or natural disaster was profiled on the National Geographic channel. The project—a plug designed to inflate should there be a fire or a breach in a transportation system—was also featured in the show "Hi-Tech War on Terror."

Byron Patterson, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major, is WVU’s third Department of Homeland Security Scholar. He was one of only eleven chosen in 2010.

The Five Year Teacher Education Program received a Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award from the National Association of Teacher Education.

In the American Institute for Economic Research’s 2009-2010 College Destinations Index, Morgantown placed 19th in the "college towns" category.

History professor Robert Blobaum received a $420,000 grant to create a dual-degree master’s program in Central and Eastern European studies.

Betty Shelton, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs at the School of Nursing, was named a 2009 fellow by the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education. She created the "Shelton Model of Student Retention," which stresses face-to-face interviews for all nursing school candidates. The School now boasts a 90 percent student retention rate.

WVU finished 40th in the final 2011 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings; the school has finished in the top 50 for four consecutive years.

The Big East Conference selected 158 WVU student-athletes as 2009-10 Big East Academic All-Stars.

The College of Engineering and Mineral Resources sent its first team to NASA’s lunabotics competition in 2011, and the team took third place in the mining division, among other honors. The 46 teams were tasked with designing and building a robot capable of working on the lunar surface.

You prove my point…

just south of Wheeling.

There’s also a giant bottle of beer on ice (the “send as a postcard” thing on that site is broken until I get time to make it spammer proof).

Those people are just nuts. Hard to believe that some people live that way, no matter where they are from.

We love our team and football in general. Our fans also travel very well and always have. We just want to be in a conference that is challenging when all is said and done. We also know we would take our lumps to begin with in the SEC. SEC fans seem as enthused as our fans when it comes to football, we like that.

I guess another possibility is the ACC for us. Most of us don’t care for that due to their elitists attitude and poor fan showing when it comes to filling up a stadium. Who knows where we will end up? Will be glad when it is over.

but they don’t add to your footprint. Louisville is at least half UK, and the rest of the state is all UK.