West Virginia University

West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, created by the state legislature on 7 February 1867 under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act and opened on 2 September that year.西弗吉尼亚大学（West Virginia University，简称 WVU）是位于美国西弗吉尼亚州摩根敦的公立赠地研究型大学，1867 年 2 月 7 日由州议会依据《莫里尔赠地学院法案》创设，同年 9 月 2 日开学。

It was renamed West Virginia University on 4 December 1868, holds the state's only law and dental schools, and is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval of the global table.该校于 1868 年 12 月 4 日更名为西弗吉尼亚大学，拥有本州唯一的法学院与牙科学院，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，为该全球榜单中的一个并列区间。

Fall 2025 enrollment reached 26,046 across the WVU System and 23,532 in Morgantown, with 2,355 full-time instructional faculty, 259 million dollars of research spending in fiscal 2024 and a main campus of 1,892 acres.2025 年秋季，西弗吉尼亚大学系统在校生为 26046 人，其中摩根敦校区 23532 人；学校有 2355 名全职专任教师，2024 财年科研支出 2.59 亿美元，主校区占地 1892 英亩。

History

• The Morrill Act of 1862 offered each state federal land for a college teaching agriculture and mechanics, and West Virginia acted on 7 February 1867 by chartering the Agricultural College of West Virginia.1862 年《莫里尔法案》向各州划拨联邦土地，用于兴办教授农业与机械的学院；西弗吉尼亚于 1867 年 2 月 7 日据此设立西弗吉尼亚农学院。
• Instruction began on 2 September 1867 in Morgantown, and on 4 December 1868 the legislature renamed the institution West Virginia University to signal a broader mission than farming alone.学校于 1867 年 9 月 2 日在摩根敦开课，1868 年 12 月 4 日州议会将其更名为西弗吉尼亚大学，以表明其使命不止于农事。
• The campus stands on land used by three earlier academies, the Monongalia Academy of 1814, the Morgantown Female Academy of 1831 and the Woodburn Female Seminary of 1858.校园所在土地此前曾先后用于三所书院，即 1814 年的莫农加利亚书院、1831 年的摩根敦女子书院与 1858 年的伍德伯恩女子神学院。
• Alexander Martin, a Presbyterian minister born in Scotland, served as first president from 1867 to 1875, and University Hall, completed in 1870, was renamed Martin Hall in 1889 in his honour, while Governor Arthur I. Boreman signed the 1867 charter and is commemorated by Boreman Hall.生于苏格兰的长老会牧师亚历山大·马丁于 1867 至 1875 年任首任校长，1870 年建成的大学堂在 1889 年以他命名为马丁楼；州长阿瑟·I·博尔曼签署 1867 年建校法案，博尔曼楼即以其命名。
• A fire destroyed the Woodburn Seminary building in 1873, and its replacement, New Hall, was finished in 1876 and renamed University Building in 1878 when the College of Law opened as the state's first professional school.1873 年一场大火烧毁伍德伯恩神学院建筑，其替代者新堂于 1876 年落成，1878 年法学院作为本州第一所专业学院成立时，新堂改称大学楼。
• Chitwood Hall, then Science Hall, closed the Woodburn Circle in 1893, and after a north wing was added in 1909 the University Building took the name Woodburn Hall, gaining its south wing and Seth Thomas clock tower in 1930.当时称作科学馆的奇特伍德楼于 1893 年建成，补齐了伍德伯恩圆环；大学楼在 1909 年加建北翼后改称伍德伯恩楼，1930 年又添南翼与塞思·托马斯钟塔。
• Because the Morrill Act required a cadet corps, military drill dominated student life and delayed the admission of women until 1889, when ten women enrolled as degree candidates.由于《莫里尔法案》要求设立学员队，军事操练长期主导学生生活，女子入学因此被推迟到 1889 年，当年有十名女性注册攻读学位。
• Harriet Lyon graduated in June 1891 at the head of her class, the first woman to take a degree at WVU, and her record helped establish women as both students and teachers.1891 年 6 月，哈丽雅特·莱昂以全班第一毕业，成为西弗吉尼亚大学首位获得学位的女性，她的成绩也为女性同时担任学生与教师打开了通道。
• Student culture took shape in the same decades, with the Athenaeum newspaper in 1887, the West Virginia Law Review in 1894, Phi Kappa Psi in 1890, Kappa Delta in 1899, football in 1891 and basketball in 1903.同一时期学生文化逐步成形：1887 年创办《雅典娜报》，1894 年创办《西弗吉尼亚法学评论》，1890 年成立 Phi Kappa Psi 兄弟会，1899 年成立 Kappa Delta 姐妹会，1891 年组建橄榄球队，1903 年组建篮球队。
• The university acquired the Vance Farm in 1899 for its experiment station, and the Reymann family gave a 990-acre farm in Hardy County in 1917 in memory of Lawrence A. Reymann.学校于 1899 年购入万斯农场供试验站使用；1917 年，雷曼家族为纪念劳伦斯·A·雷曼，捐出哈迪县一座 990 英亩的农场。
• The first library opened in 1902 in what is now Stewart Hall, and in 1911 President William Howard Taft spoke from the porch of Purinton House at the inauguration of Thomas Hodges.第一座图书馆于 1902 年在今斯图尔特楼内开放；1911 年，美国总统威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱在托马斯·霍奇斯校长就职典礼期间，于普林顿宅门廊发表演说。
• A Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit was organised in 1916, women's wartime service produced Women's Hall, now Stalnaker Hall, in 1918, and Oglebay Hall opened the same year for agriculture and forestry.1916 年学校组建后备军官训练团；女性在战时的服务促成了 1918 年女子宿舍（今斯托克纳楼）的建成，同年奥格尔贝楼启用，供农业与林业使用。
• WVU received West Virginia's first radio licence on 16 March 1922 for station WHD, run by physics professor Chauncey W. Waggoner, but the licence was deleted on 19 November 1923 when costs outran its experimental value.1922 年 3 月 16 日，西弗吉尼亚大学取得本州第一张广播执照，呼号 WHD，由物理学教授昌西·W·瓦格纳主持；1923 年 11 月 19 日，因运营成本超出实验价值，执照被注销。
• The first Mountaineer Field opened in 1925, Stansbury Hall with its 6,000-seat Fieldhouse followed in 1928, and Men's Hall, partly funded by the Works Progress Administration, was built in 1935.首座登山者体育场于 1925 年启用；1928 年斯坦斯伯里楼落成，内含可容 6000 人的室内体育馆；1935 年，部分由公共工程管理局出资的男生宿舍建成。
• By 1943 women outnumbered men on campus as students left for the Second World War, and the G.I. Bill then pushed enrollment past 8,000 for the first time.到 1943 年，随着男生奔赴二战战场，校园女性人数超过男性；此后《退伍军人权利法案》推动在校生首次突破 8000 人。
• A medical centre opened on the new Evansdale site in 1957 together with West Virginia's first school of dentistry, and in 1959 Jerry West carried the basketball team to the national championship game.1957 年，医学中心与西弗吉尼亚州第一所牙科学院在埃文斯代尔新址启用；1959 年，杰里·韦斯特率篮球队打进全国锦标赛决赛。
• Enrollment approached 14,000 during the 1960s, producing the Evansdale Residential Complex for about 1,800 students, the Mountainlair student union and new engineering and creative arts buildings.20 世纪 60 年代在校生接近 14000 人，由此建成可住约 1800 人的埃文斯代尔宿舍群、山巢学生活动中心，以及新的工程与创意艺术楼。
• The WVU Coliseum opened in 1970 with 14,000 seats, and in 1973 the Boeing-built Personal Rapid Transit began running as the world's first automated rapid transit system.西弗吉尼亚大学体育馆于 1970 年启用，设 14000 个座位；1973 年，由波音公司承建的个人快速交通系统投入运行，是世界上第一套自动化快速交通系统。
• Mountaineer Field moved to the Evansdale area on 6 September 1980, and Ruby Memorial Hospital opened in 1988 after an 8 million dollar gift, giving the state its first level-one trauma centre.登山者体育场于 1980 年 9 月 6 日迁至埃文斯代尔一带；1988 年，在 800 万美元捐赠支持下，鲁比纪念医院启用，为全州带来首个一级创伤中心。
• A 2008 scandal over an improperly awarded MBA to Heather Bresch forced the resignation of president Michael Garrison, and James P. Clements became the 23rd president in 2009.2008 年，海瑟·布雷施被不当授予工商管理硕士学位的丑闻迫使校长迈克尔·加里森辞职；2009 年，詹姆斯·P·克莱门茨出任第 23 任校长。
• WVU joined the Big 12 Conference on 1 July 2012, and in September 2023 its board approved the elimination of 28 programs and 143 faculty posts to close a 45 million dollar deficit.2012 年 7 月 1 日，西弗吉尼亚大学加入大十二联盟；2023 年 9 月，校董会为弥补 4500 万美元赤字，批准撤销 28 个专业与 143 个教职。
• Michael T. Benson became the 27th president in July 2025 and marked his first anniversary in July 2026, while the board adopted a 1.3 billion dollar operating budget for fiscal 2027.迈克尔·T·本森于 2025 年 7 月出任第 27 任校长，并于 2026 年 7 月迎来任职一周年；同期校董会通过了 2027 财年 13 亿美元的运营预算。

Academics

• WVU teaches through 12 colleges and schools in Morgantown, covering agriculture and natural resources, arts and sciences, business and economics, creative arts and media, engineering and mineral resources, applied human sciences, law, dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health.西弗吉尼亚大学在摩根敦设有 12 个学院，涵盖农业与自然资源、文理、商业与经济、创意艺术与传媒、工程与矿产资源、应用人类科学、法学、牙科、医学、护理、药学与公共卫生。
• The Morgantown campus offers more than 300 majors, including 133 undergraduate majors, while WVU Online adds 13 online bachelor's degrees and 32 certificate programs.摩根敦校区开设 300 多个专业，其中本科专业 133 个；西弗吉尼亚大学在线另提供 13 个在线学士学位项目与 32 个证书项目。
• Instructional faculty numbered 2,355 full-time in fall 2025 with 3,060 staff, a student-faculty ratio of 17 to 1, and 39 per cent of Morgantown classes taught by full-time instructional faculty.2025 年秋季，学校有 2355 名全职专任教师与 3060 名职员，生师比为 17 比 1，摩根敦校区 39% 的课程由全职专任教师讲授。
• Fall 2025 enrollment of 23,532 in Morgantown divided into 20,964 undergraduates and 5,082 graduate and professional students, with 46 per cent of Morgantown students from West Virginia and residents of 95 nations enrolled.2025 年秋季摩根敦校区 23532 名在校生中，本科生 20964 人，研究生与专业学位学生 5082 人；该校学生 46% 来自西弗吉尼亚州，生源国达 95 个。
• The fall 2025 freshman class of 4,427 arrived with an average high school GPA of 3.72, an average ACT of 23.9 and an average SAT of 1079, and WVU does not require test scores for admission.2025 年秋季入学的 4427 名新生平均高中绩点为 3.72，ACT 平均 23.9 分，SAT 平均 1079 分；该校招生不强制要求提交标准化考试成绩。
• Research and development spending reached 259 million dollars in fiscal 2024 and 256.5 million dollars in fiscal 2025, continuing a five-year climb from 188 million dollars in fiscal 2020.该校科研与开发支出在 2024 财年达 2.59 亿美元，2025 财年为 2.565 亿美元，延续了自 2020 财年 1.88 亿美元以来的五年增长。
• It is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, one of 187 American institutions in that Carnegie tier and one of 18 land-grant universities in EPSCoR states to hold it.该校被列为科研活动极高的 R1 级博士大学，是全美 187 所处于该卡内基层级的机构之一，也是 18 所位于 EPSCoR 州的赠地大学之一。
• Research platforms include the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, the Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Facility, the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, the WVU Eye Institute and the WVU Children's Hospital on the Health Sciences campus.其科研平台包括洛克菲勒神经科学研究所、厄玛·伯德生物医学研究设施、玛丽·巴布·伦道夫癌症中心、西弗吉尼亚大学眼科研究所以及卫生科学园区的西弗吉尼亚大学儿童医院。
• The forensic and investigative science program was created with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is accredited by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and keeps four crime-scene houses and a ballistics laboratory in Ming Hsieh Hall and Oglebay Hall.法证与调查科学项目最初与联邦调查局合作创办，获美国法证科学学会认证，并在明谢楼与奥格尔贝楼设有四座犯罪现场模拟屋与一间弹道实验室。
• WVU awarded the world's first Bachelor of Science in biometric systems, founded the Center for Identification Technology Research and became the FBI's lead academic partner in biometrics research on 6 February 2008.西弗吉尼亚大学授予了世界上首个生物识别系统理学士学位，创办了身份识别技术研究中心，并于 2008 年 2 月 6 日成为联邦调查局生物识别研究的首席学术伙伴。
• A WVU robotics team won the final NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge in 2016 and took its 750,000 dollar prize, while the Statler College runs programmes in engineering and mineral resources.2016 年，西弗吉尼亚大学机器人队在美国航天局样本返回机器人百年挑战赛决赛中获胜，赢得 75 万美元奖金；统计勒学院则开设工程与矿产资源类项目。
• The John Chambers College of Business and Economics moved into a 100 million dollar building and reported an 11th consecutive year of higher postgraduate placement in jobs, graduate school or the military in 2026.约翰·钱伯斯商业与经济学院迁入造价 1 亿美元的新楼，并在 2026 年连续第 11 年报告毕业生在就业、升学或参军方面的落实率上升。
• The College of Law, founded in 1878, is the only law school in West Virginia and enrolled 123 first-year students for 2026-27, its largest entering class since fall 2012.法学院创办于 1878 年，是本州唯一的法学院；2026-27 学年其一年级新生为 123 人，是 2012 年秋季以来规模最大的一届。
• The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center houses the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy, which together award doctoral and professional degrees in 16 fields.罗伯特·C·伯德卫生科学中心容纳牙科、医学、护理与药学院，这些学院合共在 16 个领域授予博士与专业学位。
• WVU Libraries comprises seven libraries and the WVU Press, and the West Virginia and Regional History Center in the Wise Library holds the world's largest collection of West Virginia research material.西弗吉尼亚大学图书馆系统由七座图书馆与大学出版社组成；怀斯图书馆内的西弗吉尼亚与区域历史中心藏有世界上规模最大的西弗吉尼亚研究资料。
• The WVU Extension Service keeps offices in all 55 counties, the system runs seven farms and five forests, and the Honors College counts 25 Rhodes, 28 Truman, 57 Goldwater and 87 Fulbright scholars among faculty and alumni.西弗吉尼亚大学推广服务处在全州 55 个县均设办公室，大学系统经营七座农场与五片森林；荣誉学院的师生与校友中有 25 位罗兹学者、28 位杜鲁门学者、57 位戈德华特学者与 87 位富布赖特学者。

Campus

• The Morgantown campus covers 1,892 acres and holds 245 buildings, 11 of them listed on the National Register of Historic Places, while the whole WVU System spreads across 15,880 acres and 518 buildings.摩根敦校区占地 1892 英亩，拥有 245 栋建筑，其中 11 栋列入《国家史迹名录》；整个西弗吉尼亚大学系统则分布于 15880 英亩土地与 518 栋建筑之中。
• Morgantown is organised into three sub-campuses, the Downtown Campus in the Monongahela River valley, the Evansdale Campus a mile and a half north and the Health Sciences Campus on the far side of a ridge.摩根敦校区分为三个部分：位于莫农加希拉河谷的市中心校区、向北约 1.5 英里的埃文斯代尔校区，以及隔着一道山脊的卫生科学校区。
• The Downtown Campus holds eight academic buildings on the National Register and is dominated by red brick work in Victorian Second Empire, Federal, Neoclassical and Collegiate Gothic styles.市中心校区有八栋教学建筑列入《国家史迹名录》，以维多利亚第二帝国式、联邦式、新古典式与学院哥特式的红砖建筑为主。
• Woodburn Circle groups Martin Hall of 1870, Woodburn Hall with its 1930 clock tower and Chitwood Hall of 1893, and the three were listed together on the National Register in 1974.伍德伯恩圆环由 1870 年的马丁楼、带 1930 年钟塔的伍德伯恩楼与 1893 年的奇特伍德楼组成，三者在 1974 年一并列入《国家史迹名录》。
• Evansdale was developed in the 1950s and 1960s on a rise above the Monongahela flood plain, and it now holds the Mountainlair union of 1968, the 14,000-seat Coliseum and most engineering laboratories.埃文斯代尔校区于 20 世纪 50 至 60 年代在莫农加希拉河泛滥平原上方的高地开发，现有 1968 年建成的山巢学生活动中心、可容 14000 人的体育馆以及多数工程实验室。
• The Health Sciences Campus clusters Ruby Memorial Hospital, Chestnut Ridge Hospital, the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and the WVU Eye Institute around the Robert C. Byrd center.卫生科学校区以罗伯特·C·伯德中心为核心，集中了鲁比纪念医院、切斯特纳特里奇医院、玛丽·巴布·伦道夫癌症中心、洛克菲勒神经科学研究所与西弗吉尼亚大学眼科研究所。
• The Personal Rapid Transit links the three campuses over five stations, uses rubber-tired cars on a steam-heated guideway and was named one of the top ten engineering achievements of 1972 by the National Society of Professional Engineers.个人快速交通系统以五个车站连接三个校区，车辆为胶轮车厢，导轨以蒸汽加热防冰雪；美国职业工程师协会将其评为 1972 年度十大工程成就之一。
• The Core Arboretum, a 91-acre woodland on Monongahela Boulevard, was acquired in 1948 at the urging of biology professor Earl Lemley Core and named for him in 1975, and it carries 3.5 miles of walking trails.核心树木园位于莫农加希拉大道，占地 91 英亩，1948 年在生物学教授厄尔·莱姆利·科尔的推动下购入，1975 年以他命名，园内有 3.5 英里步道。
• Beyond Morgantown, WVU Tech in Beckley enrolls 1,210 students in more than 30 programs, Potomac State College in Keyser enrolls 1,304, and health sciences campuses operate in Charleston and Martinsburg.摩根敦之外，位于贝克利的分校西弗吉尼亚大学理工学院有 1210 名学生、开设 30 多个专业；位于凯泽的波托马克州立学院有 1304 名学生；此外在查尔斯顿与马丁斯堡设有卫生科学校区。

Reputation

• WVU is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval that groups it with several dozen institutions worldwide.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，西弗吉尼亚大学位列 1001-1200 区间，这一并列区间将其与全球数十所院校归入同一档。
• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and its absence reflects the ranking's weighting toward citation impact and international research collaboration.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名；这一缺席与该榜单偏重引用影响力和国际科研合作的权重结构有关。
• It was ranked 716th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, a placing driven largely by its research reputation and its medical and engineering output.在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 716 位，其位置在很大程度上由科研声誉以及医学与工程产出支撑。
• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities placed it in the 701-800 band for 2026, its strongest showing among the four major global tables.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 701-800 区间，这是其在四大全球榜单中的最好表现。
• U.S. News ranked it 220th among American national universities in its 2024 survey, a position consistent with its role as the state's only research university.US News 2024 年美国全国性大学排名将该校列于第 220 位，这一位置与其作为本州唯一研究型大学的角色相符。
• Its Carnegie R1 designation places it among 187 institutions in the top tier for very high research activity, and federal data put its fiscal 2023 research spending at 246.2 million dollars, 121st nationally.其卡内基 R1 认定使其跻身科研活动极高的 187 所院校之列；联邦数据显示，该校 2023 财年科研支出为 2.462 亿美元，位居全美第 121 位。
• OpenAlex indexes 102,183 works and 5,474,943 citations for the university, a volume concentrated in energy, materials, agriculture, neuroscience and clinical medicine.OpenAlex 为该校收录 102183 项研究成果与 5474943 次引用，主要集中在能源、材料、农业、神经科学与临床医学领域。
• Faculty and alumni include 25 Rhodes Scholars, 28 Truman Scholars, 57 Goldwater Scholars, 87 Fulbright Scholars and 142 Gilman Scholars, and 19 faculty have been Carnegie Foundation Professors of the Year.该校教师与校友中有 25 位罗兹学者、28 位杜鲁门学者、57 位戈德华特学者、87 位富布赖特学者与 142 位吉尔曼学者，另有 19 名教师获卡内基基金会年度教授称号。
• WVU has competed in the Big 12 Conference since 2012, fields 18 varsity sports and has won 20 NCAA rifle championships, the most of any American university.西弗吉尼亚大学自 2012 年起参加大十二联盟，设有 18 支校队，并赢得 20 项全国大学体育协会步枪锦标赛冠军，为全美高校之最。

Student life

• The university motto, taken from the Second Epistle of Peter, is Pistei tin aretin en de ti areti tin gnosin, rendered as add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge.该校校训取自《彼得后书》，希腊文为「Pistei tin aretin en de ti areti tin gnosin」，意为「有了信心，又要加上德行；有了德行，又要加上知识」。
• Old gold and blue were chosen by the upperclassmen of 1890 from the West Virginia state seal, and the Mountaineer mascot, a buckskin-clad mountain man, has been selected annually since 1937.古金色与蓝色由 1890 年的高年级学生从西弗吉尼亚州州徽中选定；身穿鹿皮衣的「登山者」吉祥物自 1937 年起每年遴选一次。
• Mountaineer Week began in 1947 to celebrate Appalachian heritage and now includes a beard-growing contest introduced in 1949 and the Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer competition added in 1962.登山者周始于 1947 年，用以庆祝阿巴拉契亚传统，如今包含 1949 年增设的蓄须比赛与 1962 年加入的登山者先生与小姐评选。
• FallFest began in 1995 as an alcohol-free alternative to parties, draws crowds of 15,000 or more in the first week of the fall semester and has featured concerts, comedy shows and film screenings.秋日节始于 1995 年，作为替代聚会的无酒精活动，在秋季学期第一周吸引一万五千人以上，内容包括音乐会、喜剧演出与电影放映。
• The Lighting of Woodburn Hall started in 1987, takes place in early December and invites patients from WVU Children's Hospital to switch on the holiday lights before carols are sung.伍德伯恩楼点灯仪式始于 1987 年，于每年 12 月初举行，邀请西弗吉尼亚大学儿童医院的患者点亮节日灯饰，随后众人齐唱颂歌。
• The PRT Cram, held during Mountaineer Week, challenges students to squeeze into a specially modified Personal Rapid Transit car, and the record of 97 riders was set in 2000.登山者周期间的「个人快速交通挤压赛」让学生挤进一辆特别改装的个人快速交通车厢，2000 年创下的纪录为 97 人。
• The Daily Athenaeum began in 1887 as a weekly literary magazine and became an independent student paper in 1970, while WWVU-FM, known as U92, has broadcast since 1982.《每日雅典娜报》1887 年以文学周刊起步，1970 年成为独立学生报纸；呼号 WWVU-FM、通称 U92 的校园电台则自 1982 年起播音。
• John Denver sang Take Me Home, Country Roads at the dedication of Mountaineer Field in 1980, fans now sing it after every home victory, and the song became an official state song on 8 March 2014.1980 年约翰·丹佛在登山者体育场落成礼上演唱《带我回家，乡间小路》，如今球迷在每场主场胜利后齐唱此曲；该曲于 2014 年 3 月 8 日成为州歌。
• Students run more than 450 organisations, freshmen are required to live in university housing except in limited cases, and the 340-member Pride of West Virginia marching band plays at every home football game.学生运营 450 多个社团；除少数例外，新生须住校内宿舍；由 340 人组成的「西弗吉尼亚之骄」军乐队在每场主场橄榄球赛上演出。

Notable people

• Alexander Martin, the first president from 1867 to 1875, was a Presbyterian minister from Scotland who shaped the early classical curriculum and gave his name to Martin Hall on Woodburn Circle.亚历山大·马丁于 1867 至 1875 年任首任校长，这位来自苏格兰的长老会牧师奠定了早期古典课程的基础，伍德伯恩圆环上的马丁楼即以他命名。
• Harriet Lyon, who graduated first in the class of 1891, was the first woman to earn a WVU degree and her success helped normalise the presence of women as students and instructors.哈丽雅特·莱昂 1891 年以全班第一毕业，是首位取得西弗吉尼亚大学学位的女性，她的成功使女性作为学生与教师的存在逐渐成为常态。
• Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician portrayed in the film Hidden Figures, earned a master's degree in mathematics at WVU in 1940 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.美国航天局数学家凯瑟琳·约翰逊（电影《隐藏人物》的原型）1940 年在西弗吉尼亚大学取得数学硕士学位，并于 2015 年获总统自由勋章。
• Jerry West played at WVU from 1957 to 1960, led the team to the 1959 national championship game, became a 14-time NBA All-Star and entered the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.杰里·韦斯特 1957 至 1960 年效力于西弗吉尼亚大学，率队打进 1959 年全国锦标赛决赛，后成为 14 次入选全明星的球员，并于 1980 年进入奈史密斯篮球名人堂。
• John Chambers earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1971 and an MBA in 1975 at WVU, then led Cisco Systems as chief executive from 1995 to 2015, and the business college now bears his name.约翰·钱伯斯 1971 年在西弗吉尼亚大学取得电气工程学士学位，1975 年取得工商管理硕士学位，后于 1995 至 2015 年任思科系统首席执行官，商学院现以他命名。
• Joe Manchin took an MBA at WVU in 1983, served as governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 2010 to 2025.乔·曼钦 1983 年在西弗吉尼亚大学取得工商管理硕士学位，2005 至 2010 年任西弗吉尼亚州州长，2010 至 2025 年代表该州出任美国联邦参议员。
• Shelley Moore Capito graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and has represented West Virginia in the United States Senate since 2015, the first woman elected to the seat.雪莱·摩尔·卡皮托 1975 年取得学士学位，自 2015 年起代表西弗吉尼亚州出任美国联邦参议员，是该席位首位当选女性。
• Milan Puskar, who co-founded the generic drugmaker Mylan and gave millions to the university, is commemorated in the name of Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium.米兰·普斯卡联合创办仿制药企业迈兰公司，并向该校捐出巨款；登山者体育场以「米兰·普斯卡体育场」的名称纪念他。
• E. Gordon Gee served as WVU president from 1981 to 1985 and again from 2014 to 2025, the longest tenure in the university's history, and returned in 2014 for a second term that lasted until 2025.E·戈登·吉于 1981 至 1985 年及 2014 至 2025 年两度出任西弗吉尼亚大学校长，是校史上任期最长的校长，并主导了 2014 年大学与附属医院的整合。
• Michael T. Benson, previously president of Coastal Carolina University, became WVU's 27th president in July 2025 and launched the Strategic Compass planning exercise in his first year.迈克尔·T·本森此前任卡罗来纳海岸大学校长，2025 年 7 月成为西弗吉尼亚大学第 27 任校长，并在首年启动「战略罗盘」规划。
• Marlan Scully, who studied engineering physics at WVU, received the Optical Society's Adolph Lomb Medal in 1970 and the American Physical Society Schawlow Prize in 2005, while John A. List, who took his economics PhD in 1996, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.在西弗吉尼亚大学工程物理专业就读的马兰·斯库利，1970 年获美国光学学会隆布奖章，2005 年获美国物理学会肖洛奖；1996 年在校取得经济学博士学位的约翰·A·李斯特，2011 年当选美国艺术与科学院院士。
• Pat McAfee punted for the Mountaineers from 2005 to 2008 and later became a national sports broadcaster on ESPN's College GameDay, while Sam Huff played in the NFL and entered its Hall of Fame in 1982.帕特·麦卡菲 2005 至 2008 年为登山者队担任弃踢手，后成为 ESPN 大学比赛日的全国体育评论员；萨姆·赫夫则征战职业橄榄球联盟，并于 1982 年入选其名人堂。