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</font></div><div><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Texas A&M University: $12,500 for "General Support"</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Virginia University: $46,200 for "General Support"</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Virginia University Foundation: $72,100 for "General Support"</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></li></ul><div><table id="u_table" class="row-border dataTable no-footer" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="grid" style="width: 583px; margin: 0px auto; clear: both; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; border-bottom-style: none;"><tbody><tr role="row" class="even shown" style="background-color: white;"><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Virginia University Foundation</font></td><td class="align-center" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Morgantown</font></td><td class=" align-center" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WV</font></td><td class="align-center sorting_1" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,698,500</font></td><td class=" details-control" style="cursor: pointer; box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); background: url(http://members.greenpeace.org/convio/details_close.png) 0% 50% no-repeat;" /></tr><tr style="background-color: white;"><td colspan="5" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-bottom-style: none; padding-left: 50px;"><tbody><tr><th style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></th><th style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Koch Charitable Foundation</font></th><th style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</font></th><th style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fred C. & Mary R. Koch Foundation</font></th></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$15,000</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$155,000</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$55,000</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2009</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$600,000</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$472,100</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$283,100</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$118,300</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></td><td align="center" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></tr><tr><td colspan="4" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 8px 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Grant Notes from IRS 990 forms filed by Koch Foundations:&nbsp;</strong>
2012: $46,200 to West Virginia University (Not WVU Foundation)</font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ref</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/business/scientists-loved-and-loathed-by-syngenta-an-agrochemical-giant.html?r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>&nbsp;— The bee findings were not what Syngenta expected to hear.</div><div>
</div><div>The pesticide giant had commissioned James Cresswell, an expert in flowers and bees at the University of Exeter in England, to study why many of the world’s bee colonies were dying. Companies like Syngenta have long blamed a tiny bug called a varroa mite, rather than their own pesticides, for the bee decline.</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Cresswell has also been skeptical of concerns raised about those pesticides, and even the extent of bee deaths. But his initial research in 2012 undercut concerns about varroa mites as well. So the company, based in Switzerland, began pressing him to consider new data and a different approach.</div><div>
</div><div>Looking back at his interactions with the company, Dr. Cresswell said in a recent interview that “Syngenta clearly has got an agenda.” In an email, he summed up that agenda: “It’s the varroa, stupid.”</div><div>
</div><div>For Dr. Cresswell, 54, the foray into corporate-backed research threw him into personal crisis. Some of his colleagues ostracized him. He found his principles tested. Even his wife and children had their doubts.</div><div>
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</div><div>“They couldn’t believe I took the money,” he said of his family. “They imagined there was going to be an awful lot of pressure and thought I sold out.”</div><div>
</div><div>The corporate use of academia has been documented in fields like soft drinks and pharmaceuticals. But it is rare for an academic to provide an insider’s view of the relationships being forged with corporations, and the expectations that accompany them.</div><div>
</div><div>A review of Syngenta’s strategy shows that Dr. Cresswell’s experience fits in with practices used by American competitors like Monsanto and across the agrochemical industry. Scientists deliver outcomes favorable to companies, while university research departments court corporate support. Universities and regulators sacrifice full autonomy by signing confidentiality agreements. And academics sometimes double as paid consultants.</div><div>
</div><div>In Britain, Syngenta has built a network of academics and regulators, even recruiting the leading government scientist on the bee issue. In the United States, Syngenta pays academics like&nbsp;<b>James W. Simpkins of West Virginia University,</b>&nbsp;whose work has helped validate the safety of its products. Not only has Dr. Simpkins’s research been funded by Syngenta, he is also a $250-an-hour consultant for the company. And he teamed up with a Syngenta executive in a consulting venture, emails obtained by The New York Times show.</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Simpkins did not comment. A spokesman for West Virginia University said his consulting work “was based on his 42 years of experience with reproductive neuroendocrinology.”</div><div>
</div><div>Scientists who cross agrochemical companies can find themselves at odds with the industry for years. One such scientist is Angelika Hilbeck, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The industry has long since challenged her research, and she has been outspoken in challenging them back.</div><div>
</div><div>Going back to the 1990s, her research has found that genetically modified corn — intended to kill bugs that eat the plant — could harm beneficial insects as well. Back then, Syngenta had not yet been formed, but she said one of its predecessor companies, Ciba-Geigy, tried to stifle her research by citing a confidentiality agreement signed by her employer then, a Swiss government research center called Agroscope.</div><div>
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</div><div>Many of the agreements highlight how regulators are often more like collaborators than watchdogs, exploring joint research and patent deals that they agree to keep secret.</div><div>
</div><div>One agreement between the U.S.D.A. and Syngenta, which came with a five-year nondisclosure term, covered things including “research and development activities,” “manufacturing processes” and “financial and marketing information related to crop protection and seed technologies.” In another agreement, a government scientist was barred even from disclosing sensitive information she heard at a symposium run by Monsanto.</div><div>
</div><div>The Agriculture Department, in a statement, said that without such agreements and partnerships, “many technological solutions would not make it to the public,” adding that research findings were released “objectively without inappropriate influence from internal or external partners.”</div><div>
</div><div>Luke Gibbs, a spokesman for Syngenta, which is now being acquired by the China National Chemical Corporation, said in a statement, “We are proud of the collaborations and partnerships we have built.”</div><div>
</div><div>“All researchers we partner with are free to express their views publicly in regard to our products and approaches,” he said. “Syngenta does not pressure academics to draw conclusions and allows unfettered and independent submission of any papers generated from commissioned research.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>A look at the experiences of the three scientists — Dr. Cresswell, Dr. Simpkins and Dr. Hilbeck — reveals the ways agrochemical companies shape scientific thought.</b></div><div>
</div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A Reluctant Partner</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For James Cresswell, taking money from Syngenta was not an easy decision.</font></div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Cresswell has been a researcher at the University of Exeter, in England’s southwest, for a quarter-century, mostly exploring the esoterica of flower reproduction in papers with titles like “Conifer ovulate cones accumulate pollen principally by simple impaction.” He was not used to making headlines.</div><div>
</div><div>But about a half-decade ago, he became interested in the debate over neonicotinoids, a class of pesticide derived from nicotine, and their effects on bee health. Many studies linked the chemicals to a mysterious collapse of bee colonies that was in the news. Other studies, many backed by industry, pointed to the varroa mite, and some saw both factors at play.</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Cresswell’s initial research led him to believe that concerns about the pesticides were overblown. In 2012, Syngenta offered to fund further research.</div><div>
</div><div>While many academics resisted efforts by The Times to examine their communications with Syngenta, Dr. Cresswell did not challenge a records request submitted to his university. And he spoke with candor....</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="196" data-total-count="12504" id="story-continues-29" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Today, Dr. Cresswell has returned to less controversial areas of bee research. He says he respects scientists he has met from Syngenta, but views collaboration with industry as a Faustian bargain.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="41" data-total-count="12545" id="story-continues-30" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">He called Syngenta “a kind of devil.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="173" data-total-count="12718" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“What I didn’t realize is that supping with them would actually have a broader impact on how the world sees me as a scientist,” he said. “That was my misjudgment.”</p><h4 class="story-subheading story-content" data-para-count="22" data-total-count="12740" style="line-height: 1.8125rem; font-weight: 300; margin: 33px 0px 14px 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">A Tangled Relationship</h4><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="127" data-total-count="12867" id="story-continues-31" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">If some scientists struggle to reconcile themselves with taking corporate money, others embrace complex business relationships.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="204" data-total-count="13071" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><b>James W. Simpkins, a professor at West Virginia University</b>&nbsp;and the director of its Center for Basic and Translational Stroke Research, is one of many outside academics whom Syngenta turns to for research.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="188" data-total-count="13259" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">He has focused on the Syngenta product atrazine — the second most popular weed killer in America, widely used on lawns and crops — often co-authoring research with Syngenta scientists.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="283" data-total-count="13542" id="story-continues-32" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Atrazine, banned in the European Union, has also been controversial in America. Most notably, Syngenta started a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/a-valuable-reputation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">campaign to discredit</a>&nbsp;Tyrone B. Hayes, a professor it once funded at the University of California, Berkeley, when Dr. Hayes found that atrazine changes the sex of frogs.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="264" data-total-count="13806" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Dr. Simpkins has had a different relationship with the company. In 2003, he&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.epa.gov/scipoly/sap/meetings/web/pdf/072003sapmeetingtranscript.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">appeared before American regulators</a>&nbsp;on Syngenta’s behalf, saying that “we can identify no biologically plausible mechanism by which atrazine leads to an increase in prostate cancer.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="494" data-total-count="14300" id="story-continues-33" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Dr. Simpkins was also lead author of a 2011 study finding no support that atrazine causes breast cancer. And last year, he was part of a small team of Syngenta-backed scientists that fought California’s move to require that atrazine be sold with a warning label. He also recently edited a series of papers on atrazine for Syngenta, garnering praise from a senior researcher at the company,<b>&nbsp;Charles Breckenridge,</b>&nbsp;who wrote in an email that the “papers tell a simple, yet compelling story.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="466" data-total-count="14766" id="story-continues-34" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The depth of the financial intertwining of Dr. Simpkins and Syngenta was laid out in nearly 2,000 pages of email traffic, obtained by The Times after a Freedom of Information Act request. Not only does Dr. Simpkins receive research grants, but the company also pays him $250 an hour as a consultant for his work on expert panels, studies and manuscripts, records show. Syngenta even asked Dr. Simpkins to contribute to Dr. Breckenridge’s annual performance review.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="253" data-total-count="15019" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Asking outsiders to contribute to corporate reviews is not unusual. However, Dr. Simpkins is also described in the emails as a partner in a venture set up by Dr. Breckenridge called Quality Scientific Solutions to consult on pesticides and other issues.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="391" data-total-count="15410" id="story-continues-35" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">West Virginia University’s website says that “research conducted at W.V.U. is data-driven, objective and independent” and “not influenced by any political agenda, business priority” or “funding source.” And John A. Bolt, a university spokesman, said that all of Dr. Simpkins’s Syngenta-related research had been conducted before Dr. Simpkins arrived at West Virginia in 2012.</p><figure id="media-100000004844732" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000004844732 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/29/business/00SYNGENTA5/00SYNGENTA5-master675.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" style="display: flex; margin: 45px 0px; position: relative; flex-direction: column; clear: both; max-width: none; width: 645px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden;">Photo</span><div class="image" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 7px; cursor: pointer; flex-shrink: 0;">
<div class="media-action-overlay" style="transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 0; bottom: 15px; left: 15px; position: absolute; z-index: 5; border: 1px solid rgba(200, 200, 200, 0.8); cursor: pointer;"><span class="icon sprite-icon" assets="assets" article="article" images="images" sprite="sprite" sprite-no-repeat.svg="sprite-no-repeat.svg" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" px="px" width="width" height="height" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 0; vertical-align: middle; background-image: url("");" /></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption description" style="line-height: 1.0625rem; max-width: 100%; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="caption-text">Angelika Hilbeck, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in a lab at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. The agrochemical industry has long challenged her research, and she has been outspoken in fighting back.</span>&nbsp;<span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="line-height: 1rem; display: inline-block;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden;">Credit</span>Joao Silva/The New York Times</span></figcaption></figure><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="258" data-total-count="15668" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But a review of Dr. Simpkins’s published work shows that he wrote favorable atrazine studies with Syngenta scientists&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24831581" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">in 2014</a>&nbsp;and 2015, and listed his university affiliation. Mr. Bolt said Dr. Simpkins only “served as an expert adviser” in the studies.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="284" data-total-count="15952" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">In 2014, Syngenta made a $30,000 donation to the university’s foundation. Mr. Bolt said that the donation was made “in general support of the research activities of Dr. James W. Simpkins.” None of the money, Mr. Bolt said, was “used to support research related to Syngenta.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="277" data-total-count="16229" id="story-continues-36" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><b>Dr. Simpkins’s collaborations with Dr. Breckenridge appear to be expansive.</b>&nbsp;In an email to Dr. Simpkins last year, Dr. Breckenridge sent him a study on the Mediterranean Diet and suggested that they use a multilevel marketing company to help them sell a product of their own.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="133" data-total-count="16362" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“If we could come up with a better Snake Oil,” he wrote to Dr. Simpkins, “we would have access to a massive marketing force.”</p><h4 class="story-subheading story-content" data-para-count="21" data-total-count="16383" style="line-height: 1.8125rem; font-weight: 300; margin: 33px 0px 14px 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">A Critic and a Target</h4><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="71" data-total-count="16454" id="story-continues-37" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some scientists labor outside the industry. It can be a difficult path.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="320" data-total-count="16774" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Angelika Hilbeck worked for Agroscope</b>, a Swiss agricultural research center, in the 1990s, when she began to examine genetically modified corn. The corn was engineered to kill insect larvae that fed on it, but Dr. Hilbeck found that it was also toxic to an insect called the lacewing, a useful bug that eats other pests.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="349" data-total-count="17123" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ciba-Geigy, a predecessor of Syngenta, had a confidentiality agreement with Agroscope, and insisted that she keep the research secret, she said. Confidentiality agreements are not unusual for Agroscope. In one such agreement obtained by The Times, the agency agreed to return or destroy corporate documents it received as part of a research project.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="200" data-total-count="17323" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Dr. Hilbeck said she refused to back down and eventually published her work. Her contract at Agroscope was not renewed. An Agroscope spokeswoman said the episode took place too long ago to comment on.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="428" data-total-count="17751" id="story-continues-38" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Dr. Hilbeck continued as a university researcher and was succeeded at Agroscope by Jörg Romeis, a scientist who had worked at Bayer and has since co-authored research with employees from Syngenta, DuPont and other companies. He has spent much of his career trying to debunk Dr. Hilbeck’s work. He followed her lacewing studies by co-authoring his own, finding that&nbsp;<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/genetically_modified_food/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about genetically modified food." class="meta-classifier" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">genetically modified crops</a>&nbsp;were&nbsp;<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00436.x/full" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">not harmful</a>&nbsp;to the lacewing.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="210" data-total-count="17961" id="story-continues-39" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Next, after Dr. Hilbeck co-wrote&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/articles/2008/a-00634.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">a paper</a>&nbsp;outlining a model for assessing the unintended risks of such crops, Dr. Romeis was lead author of an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n2/full/nbt1381.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">alternative approach</a>&nbsp;with a Syngenta scientist among his co-authors.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="319" data-total-count="18280" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Then, in 2009, Dr. Hilbeck was an author of a paper looking at&nbsp;<a href="http://stopogm.net/sites/stopogm.net/files/cry3Bbschmidt.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">risks to ladybug larvae</a>&nbsp;from modified crops. Dr. Romeis followed by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20740377" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">co-authoring a study</a>&nbsp;that found “no adverse effects” to ladybug larvae. In subsequent publications, he referred to work by Dr. Hilbeck and others as “<a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n5/full/nbt.2578.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">bad science</a>” and a “<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25161661" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">myth</a>.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="85" data-total-count="18365" id="story-continues-40" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“They were my little stalkers,” Dr. Hilbeck said. “Whatever I did, they did.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="252" data-total-count="18617" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">In an interview, Dr. Romeis, who now leads Agroscope’s biosafety research group, said, “Her work does not affect our mission in any way,” adding that the idea of researching the effects of genetically modified crops was “not patented by her.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="269" data-total-count="18886" id="story-continues-41" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Refereeing a scientific dispute is difficult. But Dr. Romeis and his collaborators do seem preoccupied with Dr. Hilbeck’s work, judging from a review of email traffic between Agroscope and the U.S.D.A. obtained by The Times after a Freedom of Information Act request.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="241" data-total-count="19127" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">In 2014, as Dr. Romeis was developing a paper assailing Dr. Hilbeck’s work, one U.S.D.A. scientist, Steven E. Naranjo, joked in a message to Dr. Romeis: “Joerg, its generous of you to see that Hilbeck gets published once in a while :)”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="242" data-total-count="19369" id="story-continues-42" data-node-uid="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Dr. Hilbeck is used to looking over her shoulder. “We shouldn’t be running into all kinds of obstacles and face all this comprehensive mobbing just doing what we’re supposed to do,” she said. “It’s totally corrupted this field.”</p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Its other campuses include the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University_Institute_of_Technology" title="West Virginia University Institute of Technology" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">West Virginia University Institute of Technology</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,West_Virginia" title="Montgomery, West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Montgomery</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potomac_State_College_of_West_Virginia_University" title="Potomac State College of West Virginia University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Potomac State College of West Virginia University</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyser,West_Virginia" title="Keyser, West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Keyser</a>; and a second clinical campus for the University's medical and dental schools at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_Area_Medical_Center" title="Charleston Area Medical Center" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charleston Area Medical Center</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,West_Virginia" title="Charleston, West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charleston</a>. WVU Extension Service provides outreach with offices in all of West Virginia's 55 counties. Since 2001, WVU has been governed by the West Virginia University&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors" title="Board of Governors" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Board of Governors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enrollment for the fall 2013 semester was 29,466 for the main campus, while enrollment across all campuses totaled 32,348.<sup id="cite_ref-Enrollment_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#cite_note-Enrollment-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;WVU offers 184 bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in 14 colleges.<sup id="cite_ref-AboutWVU_3-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#cite_note-AboutWVU-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WVU has produced 24&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship" title="Rhodes Scholarship" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rhodes Scholars</a>, including former WVU president&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C.Hardesty,Jr." title="David C. Hardesty, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David C. Hardesty,&nbsp;Jr.</a><sup id="cite_ref-AboutWVU_3-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#cite_note-AboutWVU-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;The University also has produced 36&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_M.Goldwater_Scholarship" title="Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Goldwater Scholars</a>, 22&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Scholar" title="Truman Scholar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Truman Scholars</a>, and 5&nbsp;members of&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today" title="USA Today" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">USA Today</a></i><span style="padding-left: 0.1em;">'</span>s "All‑USA College Academic First Team."<sup id="cite_ref-AboutWVU_3-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#cite_note-AboutWVU-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">History</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; 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background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">A new era</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Academics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Academics</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Colleges_and_schools" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Colleges and schools</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Areas_of_study" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Areas of study</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Rankings" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Rankings</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Campus" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Campus</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Transportation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Transportation</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Libraries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Libraries</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Campus_Safety" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Campus Safety</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Campus_Life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Campus Life</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Events" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Events</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Recreation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Recreation</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Student_organizations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Student organizations</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Fraternities_and_sororities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Fraternities and sororities</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Student_media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Student media</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Student_health" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.6</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Student health</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Arts_and_entertainment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.7</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Arts and entertainment</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Athletics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Athletics</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Football" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Football</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Basketball" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Basketball</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Soccer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Soccer</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Marching_band" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Marching band</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Fanbase" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Fanbase</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Pageantry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Pageantry</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Sporting_traditions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Sporting traditions</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#WVU_Ring_Day_Ceremony" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">WVU Ring Day Ceremony</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#Notable_alumni" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Notable alumni</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">8</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-33" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">9</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Business">Business</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Business" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gregory Babe - US CEO&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_Corporation" title="Bayer Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bayer Corporation</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a></sup></font></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Bresch" title="Heather Bresch" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Heather Bresch</a>&nbsp;- CEO of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylan" title="Mylan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mylan</a>, Inc.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chambers(CEO)" title="John Chambers (CEO)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Chambers</a>&nbsp;- President and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CEO</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems" title="Cisco Systems" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cisco System</a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems" title="Cisco Systems" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">s</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_S.Evans" title="Karen S. Evans" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Karen S. Evans</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<i>de facto</i>&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_information_officer" title="Chief information officer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CIO</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United States</a>&nbsp;under President George W. Bush</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maggie Hardy Magerko - President of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/84_Lumber" title="84 Lumber" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">84 Lumber</a>&nbsp;Company and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemacolin_Woodlands_Resort" title="Nemacolin Woodlands Resort" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nemacolin Woodlands Resort</a>&nbsp;(Attended for two years but did not graduate).&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education">Education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_H.Bullard" title="Todd H. Bullard" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Todd H. Bullard</a>&nbsp;- former president of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potomac_State_College_of_West_Virginia_University" title="Potomac State College of West Virginia University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Potomac State College</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethany_College(Bethany,West_Virginia)" title="Bethany College (Bethany, West Virginia)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bethany College</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_DiSarro" title="Joseph DiSarro" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joseph DiSarro</a>&nbsp;(Ph.D.), professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%26_Jefferson_College" title="Washington & Jefferson College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington & Jefferson College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-bio-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Vaughan" title="Patrick Vaughan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick Vaughan</a>&nbsp;- Historian and professor at the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagiellonian_University" title="Jagiellonian University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jagiellonian University</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kraków</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Poland</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M.Vest" title="Charles M. Vest" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles M. Vest</a>&nbsp;- President Emeritus of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>&nbsp;(MIT)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruqayyah_Ahmed_Rufa%27i" title="Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i</a>&nbsp;- Nigeria's Minister of Education</font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Journalists">Journalists</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Journalists" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fred Griffith, longtime&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland,Ohio" title="Cleveland, Ohio" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cleveland, Ohio</a>&nbsp;television host<sup id="cite_ref-Fred_Griffith_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-Fred_Griffith-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kearns" title="Frank Kearns" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frank Kearns</a>&nbsp;- Foreign correspondent/broadcast journalist&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CBS News</a>&nbsp;1953-1971; and WVU Professor of Journalism 1971-1983 (died 1986)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Lofton" title="Melanie Lofton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Melanie Lofton</a>&nbsp;- News Anchor at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHSV-TV" title="WHSV-TV" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WHSV-TV</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ABC</a>&nbsp;affiliate in Harrisonburg,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Virginia</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lovece" title="Frank Lovece" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Frank Lovece</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asra_Nomani" title="Asra Nomani" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Asra Nomani</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tomasky" title="Michael Tomasky" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Michael Tomasky</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A.J. Clemente, former anchor for KFYR-TV</font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Military">Military</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Military" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Ret. Gen.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_E.Anderson" title="Earl E. Anderson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Earl E. Anderson</a>&nbsp;- Marine Corps General</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ret. Gen.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantz_J.Craddock" title="Bantz J. Craddock" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bantz J. Craddock</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Army</a>, Former&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Allied_Commander_Europe" title="Supreme Allied Commander Europe" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Supreme Allied Commander Europe</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brig. Gen.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kendall_Everest,Jr" title="Frank Kendall Everest, Jr" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frank Kendall Everest, Jr</a>&nbsp;- test pilot and pioneer of rocket aircraft</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gen.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H.Foglesong" title="Robert H. Foglesong" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert H. Foglesong</a>&nbsp;- Retired, Commander, US Air Force in Europe; Former President of Mississippi State University</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brig. Gen.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Allen_Sinclair" title="Jeffrey Allen Sinclair" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeffrey Allen Sinclair</a>&nbsp;- Army officer in Afghanistan who pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and action unbecoming of an officer in 2014<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Politics">Politics</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Politics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_George_Bachmann" title="Carl George Bachmann" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carl George Bachmann</a>&nbsp;- U.S. Congressman, Republican&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Whip" title="Minority Whip" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Minority Whip</a>&nbsp;1931-1933</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_S.Barnes" title="Clark S. Barnes" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clark S. Barnes</a>&nbsp;- West Virginia Senate, District 15, 2004 – Present</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace_Barron" title="William Wallace Barron" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William Wallace Barron</a>&nbsp;- 26th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_C.Berger" title="Irene C. Berger" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Irene C. Berger</a>&nbsp;- federal judicial nominee for the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_West_Virginia" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_L.Bowman" title="Frank L. Bowman" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frank L. Bowman</a>&nbsp;was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Mae_Brown" title="Virginia Mae Brown" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Virginia Mae Brown</a>, first woman to head the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission" title="Interstate Commerce Commission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Interstate Commerce Commission</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Cain" title="Becky Cain" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Becky Cain</a>&nbsp;- past president of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">League of Women Voters</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G.Conley" title="William G. Conley" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William G. Conley</a>&nbsp;- 18th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harrison_Courtney" title="William Harrison Courtney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William Harrison Courtney</a>&nbsp;- special assistant to President Clinton</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ginsburg(lawyer)" title="David Ginsburg (lawyer)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Ginsburg</a>&nbsp;(1912–2010), presidential adviser and executive director of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission" title="Kerner Commission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kerner Commission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E.Glasscock" title="William E. Glasscock" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William E. Glasscock</a>&nbsp;- 13th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mason_Gore" title="Howard Mason Gore" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Howard Mason Gore</a>&nbsp;- 17th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_M.Hawk" title="Kathleen M. Hawk" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kathleen M. Hawk</a>&nbsp;- Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lynn_Hogg" title="Robert Lynn Hogg" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert Lynn Hogg</a>&nbsp;- Represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1930–1933</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_M.Kilgore" title="Harley M. Kilgore" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harley M. Kilgore</a>&nbsp;- chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization during World War II</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Jacobs" title="Nancy Jacobs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nancy Jacobs</a>&nbsp;- Maryland State Senator (1973).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Mahoney(politician)" title="Tim Mahoney (politician)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tim Mahoney (politician)</a>&nbsp;- U.S. Congressman from Florida</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_F.McClain" title="Edward F. McClain" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Edward F. McClain</a>&nbsp;- member&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Wisconsin State Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin State Assembly</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_McGraw" title="Darrell McGraw" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Darrell McGraw</a>&nbsp;- Former West Virginia Attorney General, Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Joe Manchin</a>&nbsp;- The 34th Governor of West Virginia and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senator" title="United States Senator" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United States Senator</a>&nbsp;from West Virginia</font></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C.Marland" title="William C. Marland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William C. Marland</a>&nbsp;- 24th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Blane_Michael" title="M. Blane Michael" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">M. Blane Michael</a>&nbsp;- Circuit Judge,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Mollohan" title="Alan Mollohan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alan Mollohan</a>&nbsp;- United States Congressman</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_A.Moore,Jr." title="Arch A. Moore, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arch A. Moore, Jr.</a>&nbsp;- 28th & 30th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_F.Morgan" title="Ephraim F. Morgan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ephraim F. Morgan</a>&nbsp;- 16th Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_M.Neely" title="Matthew M. Neely" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Matthew M. Neely</a>&nbsp;- 22nd Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asra_Nomani" title="Asra Nomani" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Asra Nomani</a>&nbsp;- former Wall Street Journal reporter, author and Islamic reform and feminism activist</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pantelides" title="Mike Pantelides" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mike Pantelides</a>&nbsp;- Mayor of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis,MD" title="Annapolis, MD" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Annapolis, MD</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pridemore" title="Tom Pridemore" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom Pridemore</a>&nbsp;- West Virginia House of Delegates and football player</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Pyle" title="Jeff Pyle" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jeff Pyle</a>&nbsp;- Pennsylvania State Representative</font></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_F.Reed" title="Stuart F. Reed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Stuart F. Reed</a>&nbsp;- politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S.Stull" title="Paul S. Stull" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul S. Stull</a>&nbsp;- member&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_House_of_Delegates" title="Maryland House of Delegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Maryland House of Delegates</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G.Trueschler" title="John G. Trueschler" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John G. Trueschler</a>, former member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_House_of_Delegates" title="Maryland House of Delegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Maryland House of Delegates</a>&nbsp;(1979).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_H.Underwood" title="Cecil H. Underwood" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cecil H. Underwood</a>&nbsp;- Youngest (25th) and oldest (32nd) Governor of West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M.Devine" title="Joseph M. Devine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joseph M. Devine</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor" title="Governor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Governor</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">North Dakota</a>&nbsp;from 1898 to 1899<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Science">Science</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Science" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_McBride" title="Jon McBride" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jon McBride</a>&nbsp;- astronaut</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Weaver" title="Kim Weaver" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kim Weaver</a>&nbsp;- astrophysicist</font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_notable_alumni">Other notable alumni</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Other notable alumni" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Tisdall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lawrence Tisdall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lawrence Tisdall</a>&nbsp;- NYPD Police Officer and PBA Delegate</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Ramsey" title="Patsy Ramsey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patsy Ramsey</a>&nbsp;- Mother of Jon Benet Ramsey and Miss West Virginia in 1977.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanne_Pennington" title="Melanne Pennington" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Melanne Pennington</a>&nbsp;- 1984 Miss West Virginia</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrick "Seton" O'Connor - Executive Producer of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dan_Patrick_Show" title="The Dan Patrick Show" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Dan Patrick Show</a>&nbsp;(attended but did not graduate)<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-I-Team_Report_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_University_alumni#cite_note-I-Team_Report-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></li></ul></div><div><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div>