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WVU welcomes home new, returning students with Welcome Week activities

Thursday, August 08, 2024

Offering a mix of activities for all West Virginia University students — new and returning — Welcome Week will run from Aug. 15-23, providing ways for students to have fun, explore their strengths, connect with others and give back to the community ahead of the start of the fall semester.

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Shauna Johnson: At West Virginia University, mountaineers go first. Thousands of new WVU alumni are starting to make their way in the world following May Commencement ceremonies. Here are a few members of the class of 2024

Madison Cesnick: Hi, I'm Madison Cesnick from Frostburg, Maryland, and I major in global supply chain management and with a minor in military science. What's next for me is I commission as an active duty Army officer, and then I go to my follow-on school. And then I'll be stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas for the next three to four years. I'm only from 50 minutes away and I was always a mountaineer fan and I came in straight away doing ROTC and I fell in love with it and fell in love with the Army and WVU. So this is exactly where I wanted to be.

Nathan Edelman: My name's Nathan Edelman. I'm from Akron, Ohio and my degree is agriculture education. My graduation cap is a bunch of chickens. After graduation, I plan on moving out to Iowa Farm at a hen farm. It's an egg breaker and it's also a shout-out to the WVU poultry department here. They are wonderful, they are welcoming, and I've been working with them now for four years. My entire time here. This is my way of giving big thanks to them.

Morgan Castile: I'm Morgan Castile. I'm from Butler, Pennsylvania and my major is biomedical laboratory diagnostics. I'm planning to work as medical laboratory scientists at Ruby Memorial Hospital, in the clinical laboratory there. It was pretty hard at the beginning. I was pretty scared. It gets better. The four years I never thought I'd be where I am today and I'm proud of myself.

Noah Trimmer: My name is Noah Trimmer. I'm from Uniontown, Pennsylvania and I'm majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering. I'll definitely remember being a part of the WVU experimental rocketry team. I've been out to the Spaceport America Cup out in New Mexico two times, and we're getting ready to go again end of June. Had memories with that team I'll never forget and I'll continue to be involved post graduation. It's been a long time coming. Excited, but also sad to be leaving. Moving on to the next stage and really, really excited.

Emma Coiner: My name is Emma Coiner. I am from Williamstown, West Virginia and I am a double major in political science and philosophy. These four years have been some of the best of my life and I'll always cherish these memories that I've made here and the people that I've met, definitely.

Shauna Johnson: So let's go. Follow our stories at wvutoday.wvu.edu.

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