WVUToday

Three West Virginia University professors will be honored Thursday as the latest faculty members to be named Robert C. Byrd Professors while past recipients will be recognized at the inaugural Robert C. Byrd Professorship Investiture Ceremony.

The five-day camp is set for June 21 through June 25 on the downtown campus. Students will learn about robotics and energy, geology and archeology, chemistry, nanotechnology and forensics.

Research under way at West Virginia University is among several projects singled out as examples of the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act one year after its launch.

WVU's Department of Physics at WVU will host physicist Andrea Lommen speaking on "Measuring Einstein's Last Great Legacy: Wrinkles in Space-Time" on March 11 at 7:30 p.m.

West Virginia University's Board of Governors, meeting via teleconference Friday (March 5), approved $2.335 million in new Research Trust Fund contributions for submission to the state for matching funds, bringing the total approved by the Board to $5.929 million.

West Virginia University will construct a new biomedical research facility on its Morgantown campus with $14.5 million in funding awarded Thursday by the National Institutes of Health.

George Bennett, a West Virginia University graduate who founded four successful businesses and reshaped the practice of management consulting, has contributed $1 million to his alma mater.

The Morgantown Economic Outlook Conference, Thursday, March 17, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Waterfront Place Hotel, will examine the area's economic performance and outlook and the future of the global economic crisis.

As technology evolves, combating cyber attacks becomes a greater risk for the United States. Jonathan Boyd, professor in the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, has developed techniques that could be used to design faster, more efficient and effective network security measures with fewer false alarms and failures.

Being a graduate assistant in West Virginia University's Undergraduate Advising Services Center has given Jan Miller the chance to get a head start on her counseling career- and of course, free tuition.