West Virginia University facts for kids

The Woodburn Hall which is one of the oldest building on campus.

West Virginia University is a public university in Morgantown, West Virginia. The university has about 29,306 students. It was founded in 1867. The current president of the university is E. Gordon Gee, who is in his second stint as president.

Sports

The athletics teams of the university are called the Mountaineers. They have 17 varsity teams and now compete mainly in the Big 12 Conference, after leaving their longtime home, the Big East Conference, in July 2012. WVU has separate conference memberships in two sports. In men's soccer, a sport not sponsored by the Big 12, the Mountaineers play in the Mid-American Conference. In rifle shooting, also not sponsored by the Big 12, the Mountaineers are in the Great America Rifle Conference.

Images for kids

• 

  WVU's Cadet Corps, c. 1880, from the site of where Oglebay Hall is today, Martin Hall (center) and Woodburn Hall (right) are in the background.

• 

  West Virginia University's first football team, formed in 1891

• 

  Boyd "Slim" Arnold, the first Mountaineer mascot to don the traditional buckskin uniform. His selection in 1937 marked the beginning of an official process to name the mascot annually.

• 

  Woodburn Hall was completed in 1876 and is the centerpiece of Woodburn Circle, the oldest part of the WVU campus.

• 

  Stalnaker Hall is the oldest residence hall on campus.

• 

  Health Sciences Campus

• 

  The WVU Robotics Team that won NASA Centennial Challenge (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

• 

  Wise Library on the downtown campus is West Virginia University's main library.

• 

  Greek Games on Mountainlair Plaza during WVU's annual Greek Week

• 

  The Mountaineer (1971), West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

• 

  The formation of the state outline by The Pride of West Virginia

See also

In Spanish: Universidad de Virginia Occidental para niños