The Reed College of Media and College of Creative Arts will merge to form the new WVU College of Creative Arts and Media as of July 1, 2024. Get details.
NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation’s voice on mental illness, a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1100 local communities across the country who join together to meet the NAMI mission through advocacy, research, support, and education.
NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation’s voice on mental illness, a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1100 local communities across the country who join together to meet the NAMI mission through advocacy, research, support, and education.
Dana Coester, his direct marketing professor, gave Patella and his classmates an assignment to develop an idea for a practical smart phone application. Already having several ideas for applications, Patella was put in touch with a WVU University Relations/Web staff member, Dave Olsen, who could help him construct one of those ideas.
“He told me that my original idea would take a lot of work and to start small. Keep it simple,” Patella said. “An app is a vertical. You want it to do one thing.”