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![Friends and family of late WVU grad create C. Patrick Laughlin Endowed Scholarship](/files/8002ef11-76b8-45a5-9923-4b019c320507/400x.webp?cb=6fedb3ae045ac032f13ade14358026e5)
Friends and family of late WVU grad create C. Patrick Laughlin Endowed Scholarship
Years after graduating from West Virginia University, Carl Patrick Laughlin (BA Arts and Sciences, ‘53) became a physician for many of America’s best-known astronauts as a part of NASA’s Space Task Group.
Paying it forward
Social work scholarship encourages students to give back
Tradition runs deep
Gaziano family creates WVU English professorship
More than a memory
Political science alumna honors late father through scholarship
Funding the future
WVU finance grad creates STEM scholarship
Eberly College receives $60,000 for graduate education
Poverty, food security, teacher shortages and public health disparities are among the many issues facing West Virginia’s future.
![Parkersburg, W.Va. native Charles Beorn arrived at West Virginia University in 1959 for his freshman year of college with only one goal in mind—going to medical school.
Beorn reflects that over the course of his career, the broad liberal arts education he received at WVU prepared him to manage his own practice and better communicate with patients. That liberal arts experience motivated Beorn to establish scholarships supporting the humanities and liberal arts.](/files/e43dd1e4-ab63-46fe-9285-265e935ae001/400x.webp?cb=821c7f5c67fad9fc316af69b32c3629b)
New scholarships support the liberal arts
Parkersburg, W.Va. native Charles Beorn arrived at West Virginia University in 1959 for his freshman year of college with only one goal in mind—going to medical school.
Life-long learning
Alumnus endows scholarship for future English students
Defying boundaries
Geology alumni support field camps