Life Sciences Building
This stop is located behind Woodburn Hall and overlooks the Life Sciences Building. Opened in 2002, the Life Sciences building houses the Psychology, Biology, and Neuroscience departments. This research hub includes classrooms, labs, a top floor greenhouse, herbarium and clinical facilities for our psychologists-in-training.
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R1 Research
West Virginia University remains one of the top research institutions in the nation, according to the just-released 2021 rankings by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. WVU is one of only 146 colleges and universities to attain a ranking of R1, or very high research activity, alongside such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. The designation is the most elite category for research-focused institutions.