MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — After breaking ground last January, West Virginia University is gearing up to put the final steel beam into the soon-to-be WVU Eye Institute in Morgantown.

The 150,000-square-foot facility will be double the size of the current Eye Institute. Along with treating eye disease, the institute will help train the state’s future generations of eye doctors, which WVU officials have said will become increasingly important as the state’s population grows older.

On Wednesday, WVU President Michael Benson and WVU Hospitals President Albert Wright, among others, were in attendance to sign the beam before it goes onto the structure.

Wright said it was a proud day for WVU and that the new Eye Institute will allow patients with the most complicated cases be treated in-state.

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