Following the 25th anniversary of Sara Elizabeth Cooper's passing, her family, led by sister Jamie Cooper Moales, vice president of development for WVU Medicine and Health Sciences, has established the Sara Elizabeth Cooper Fund. The donation provides flexible funding for the WVU Cancer Institute, with a preference for research associated with adolescent and young adult cancers or programming to benefit those patients.
Each summer, students from all over the Mountain State step onto the West Virginia University campus and into a world of possibilities. At the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, over 300 K-12 students explore real-world STEM through hands-on experiences — thanks in large part to philanthropic support.
The WVU Cancer Institute raised $151,000 to support Bonnie’s Bus at the 2025 Pink Party, a spirited evening to celebrate the state-of-the-art mobile mammography screening unit.
The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Gold & Blue Enterprises have entered into a historic 10-year partnership with Hope Gas that will rename one of the legendary college basketball arenas in the nation.
Dr. David O’Neal, a West Virginia University alumnus and Beckley native, has generously committed a planned gift to benefit the College of Creative Arts and Media.
Private support makes the West Virginia Innocence Project clinic possible, empowering the next generation of attorneys to make a difference and providing hope for West Virginians who’ve been wrongfully convicted.
Tapping into the power of optics, the West Virginia University skyline will get brighter with planned improvements in the coming months for the iconic University Water Tower on the Evansdale area of campus.
