The Fall 2025 semester is well underway and WVU Libraries is pleased to share a packed schedule of exhibits for students, faculty, staff, and community. Brimming with compelling topics and educational and cultural information, the Libraries’ distinguished centers, museums, and other cultural programs are hosting dozens of extracurricular experiences you won’t want to miss.
Our centers and programs
Housed within WVU Libraries, Art in the Libraries, the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences, and the West Virginia & Regional History Center connect people with information and culture by providing an array of educational and cultural tools, services, and programming for campus and community.
Read on for a sampling of the and exhibits you can take advantage of this fall.
West Virginia & Regional History Center Exhibits
West Virginians in World War II: In Their Own Words
May 2025 – May 2026 | West Virginia & Regional History Center, 6th Floor | Downtown Library
This exhibit features the experiences of West Virginian veterans during World War II through the WVRHC’s archives. Centered around their own words, the exhibit is on display for all to visit and learn more about the stories of West Virginians who fought during WWII.
The National Science Foundation At 75: West Virginia Senator Harley Kilgore and the Creation of the NSF
May 2025 – Dec. 2025 | John D. Rockefeller IV Gallery, 2nd Floor | Downtown Library
Using former Sen. Kilgore’s archives, this exhibit explores the debate between Kilgore and prominent scientist Vannevar Bush over post-World War II science policy and the formation of a national science agency.
Ancient Coin Display
May 2025 – Dec. 2025 | West Virginia & Regional History Center, 6th Floor | Downtown Library
A case display featuring some of the ancient Roman coins in the West Virginia & Regional History Center collections, themed around Leaders and Lovers, and Faces of Power.
William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences Exhibits
WVU School of Pharmacy
Sep. 2025 – May 2026 | Pylons Commons & Neal Museum | Health Sciences Center North
This timeline exhibit showcases the history of WVU's School of Pharmacy, from its founding to the present. Beginning as a small department under the School of Medicine in 1914, the WVU School of Pharmacy has grown to a top-ranking program with more than 4,000 alumni, training generations of pharmacy professionals.
Honoring NICU Pioneers
Aug. 2025 – Dec. 2025 | Lobby | WVU Medicine Children's Hospital
This exhibit honors the pioneers who founded WVU's first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the 1970s. Designed by Dr. Martha Mullett and Lemley Mullett, with the assistance of the Neal Museum, the exhibit recognizes the doctors, nurses, and transport volunteers that made West Virginia's initial NICU a success.
St. Mary’s Hospital and School of Nursing
Sep. 2024 – Oct. 2025 | Neal Museum | Health Sciences Center North
This exhibit tells the facility’s tale of meeting medical care needs in West Virginia, addressing high patient demand, expanding healthcare education, handling financial turmoil, providing military service training, and ensuring equal access to training for all despite cultural norms of the time.
Protecting West Virginia's Children: State Immunization Policy
May 2025 – May 2026 | Neal Museum | Health Sciences Center North
This exhibit examines the history of immunization policy from statehood to the present, with special emphasis on the smallpox, polio, and measles vaccines.
Art in the Libraries Exhibits
Artificial Intelligence: Shaping Futures, Impacting Lives
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | Downtown, Evansdale, and Health Sciences Libraries
Top left to right: Button designed by human Brodey Cook, WVU Game Design and Interactive Media graduate (B.A. ’25). Button design selected for inclusion in the exhibit and printed as a button to be given away at library front desks. Button created by Art in the Libraries committee member Fiona Smith, WVU Accounting graduate (B.S.B.A. 2025) using ChatGPT. Bottom left to right: Button designed by human Jorge Rosero Tejada, WVU Game Design and Interactive Media second degree student. Button created by Art in the Libraries committee member Evy Wright using Gemini. Button designed by human Alexander (AJ) Johnson, WVU Game Design and Interactive Media graduate (B.A. ’25).
This 3-part exhibit explores how AI transforms fields of study, work, career readiness, community engagement, and daily life. Through contributions from WVU students, faculty, staff, and AI itself, the exhibit dives into both the opportunities and challenges AI presents, inviting reflection on how it will shape—and be shaped by—our shared future.
Layers of Self: Visual Narratives of Teaching
Artwork by Franny Perez-Ramirez, PhD student, College of Applied Human Sciences and Educational Theory and Practice.
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | Graduate Commons, Lower Level | Downtown Library
Through imagery, color, and texture, this exhibit highlights themes of culture, belonging, identity negotiation, and pedagogy—revealing teacher identity as dynamic, contextual, and deeply personal. Also check out the curator’s scholarly and creative process on the online exhibit page.
Activating Urban Space for Health & Movement
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | Room 1020 | Downtown Library
This exhibit explores how public space can be a catalyst for physical wellbeing, creativity, and joy. Through a series of photo-based display panels and a set of movement instructions, this exhibit prompts visitors to reimagine familiar spaces as opportunities for stretching, stepping, and breathing.
Even More Art in the Libraries Exhibits
WVU Abroad: Student Perspectives in Photos
Aug. 2025 – Dec. 2025 | Central Stairway, 2nd & 4th Floor | Downtown Library | Exhibit
Passion or Obsession? Michael Loop's Lunchbox Collection
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | Main Floor | Evansdale Library | Exhibit
Groundwork: Photography and Poetry by Randi Ward
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | 4th Floor | Downtown Library | Exhibit
Imagining the End, Experiencing the Beginning
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | Reading Room, 6th Floor | Downtown Library | Exhibit
Art Is Healing
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | 2nd Floor | Downtown Library | Exhibit
2025 Interprofessional Awards
Aug. 2025 – May 2026 | Health Sciences Library | Exhibit
Art, Healing and Friendship: Remembering Dr. Arthur I. Jacknowitz Exhibit
Sep. 2025 – May 2026 | Pylons Commons | Health Sciences Center North
This three-part, multidisciplinary exhibit honors beloved WVU Pharmacy professor Dr. Art Jacknowitz’s legacy, encouraging visitors to engage with art and history as a source for their own reflection and healing.
A collaboration between WVU Libraries, Health Sciences, the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences, and Art in the Libraries, the exhibit features full-sized reproductions of original paintings by Dr. John Mauger, former WVU School of Pharmacy faculty member, his son, Jeffrey Mauger (B.S. ’14), as well as two original Mauger works.
Thanks to the generosity of his wife, Linda Jacknowitz, and the West Virginia & Regional History Center, visitors can view memorabilia such as Jacknowitz's Order of the Vandalia Award and other awards celebrating Jacknowitz's commitment to both pharmacy and the arts.