I'm a journalist and layout designer in my last year at West Virginia University.
This is a collection of my works. For my full resume and biographical information, contact me through the social media linked below.
Thanks for visiting!
Bryan Bumgardner
Journalist / Layout Designer
Morgantown, WVa / New York, NY
I'm a journalist and layout designer in my last year at West Virginia University.
This is a collection of my works. For my full resume and biographical information, contact me through the social media linked below.
Thanks for visiting!
I’m in Morgantown’s infamous Sunnyside neighborhood, watching dozens of college-aged revelers cram into a house party. Dance music pulses from the front door as partygoers spill out onto the street, laughing and conversing with no regard for open container laws. Less than a month earlier, students and police clashed on this street following WVU’s win over Texas. Couches were burned, bottles were thrown and people were arrested in a celebratory riot, a persistent tradition at WVU.
But is it really a tradition? Who burned the first couch, and how did it become a recognizable part of WVU culture?
For more than 16 years, Joe "The Hot Dog Man" Stone has sold hot dogs to the Morgantown community. Every weekend, patrons stop by his cart on the upper end of High Street, knowing "The Hot Dog Man" will always be there with cheap hotdogs.
Or will he?
The West Virginia University Student Government Association called a special meeting Thursday to discuss the impeachment of election chair Josh Harrison.
A state-of-the-art radio telescope in southern West Virginia may lose funding, according to a report issued by the National Science Foundation.
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope or "GBT," located in Pocahontas county, is the largest steerable, single-dish radio telescope in the world, and it is a highly demanded research tool for astronomers, physicists and students.
At a construction cost of $95 million in 2000, the radio dish is larger than two football fields, weighs 16 million pounds and costs roughly $10 million per year to operate.
The GBT also provides astronomers with 6,600 hours of "open-sky" observation time per year – meaning any individual with a compelling reason to use the telescope may do so.
On August 14, a committee from the National Science Foundation, the GBT’s primary financial supporter, issued a report recommending the GBT be "fully divested" from the NSF’s funding portfolio within five years.
At every home Mountaineer football game, the West Virginia University marching band – known officially as "The Pride of West Virginia" – performs their unique halftime show for thousands of fans.
But for this inaugural Big 12 season, The "Pride" might not be able to join the football team at away games.