The latest batch of partners also includes the Universities of Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Mexico and West Virginia University.

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Marshall University canceled classes at various campuses around the state, and West Virginia State University closed for the day.

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"It's been a very, very serious and critical situation, " said John David, a West Virginia University Institute of Technology professor and volunteer with the South Appalachian Labor School who has been working in Fayette County.

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Pavlo earned an industrial engineering degree at West Virginia University and an M.

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Morgantown is home to the research centres of West Virginia University and to Mylan Pharmaceuticals, a generic-drug maker.

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Four years ago, the provost and business school dean at West Virginia University resigned after an investigation found an executive MBA was improperly awarded to Heather Bresch who, at the time, was chief operating officer at Mylan Laboratories.

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West Virginia State College is 87 percent white, and Lincoln University in Missouri is 67 percent white.

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Esper retired from the Associated Press in 2000 and become a professor of journalism at his alma mater, West Virginia University.

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He has held the top job at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Brown University and Vanderbilt University.

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Earlier this year, West Virginia University announced its intention to leave the Big East and join the Big 12.

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