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Rural Medicine, Law School lead WVU's U.S. News grad school rankings
March 12th, 2013The School of Medicine jumped from ninth to third for rural medicine and the College of Law rose 10 spots to 91st in the nation. -
Benedum Foundation continues support of WVU with latest grants
February 5th, 2013The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation recently awarded four separate grants to West Virginia University totaling $328,000. -
"WVU: A state of innovation," Clements tells Capital Classic crowd
December 5th, 2012WVU fulfills its land-grant responsibilities with innovators who tackle the problems facing the world today, Clements tells about 600 at luncheon. -
WVU invites you to join the fight against childhood obesity
September 19th, 2012The Choose to Change childhood obesity prevention project is seeking parents or legal guardians of children enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs in Monongalia and Kanawha counties. -
NanoSAFE graduate fellowship recipients named
September 19th, 2012The NanoSAFE graduate fellowship program helps increase STEM diversity at WVU and ensure lifetime career success through comprehensive career training. -
WVU Foundation Scholar dreams of finding cure for Alzheimer's disease, neurological disorders
August 28th, 2012Every year, WVU welcomes a new group of students to the Mountaineer family. They come from a variety of places, with a variety of backgrounds. But they have one thing in common: they all use the education and experiences WVU offers to create their own, new story. -
There's more to the problem of childhood obesity than just eating too much, and there's more to the solution than just saying, "Eat less." The Choose to Change project has completed extensive community assessments of Kanawha and Monongalia counties, looking at the communities through a variety of lenses to help identify the issues and ways to battle them.
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West Virginia University experts are at work on a new generation of affordable, high capacity electric storage batteries that could help keep a busy nation's lights shining brightly even in the aftermath of crippling weather events like the storm that violently knocked out power to millions of Americans in early July.
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More than a milestone, NYSP's legacy is found in the magic summer memories of thousands of campers and employees from the region and the can-do spirit of WVU's College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, which hosts and organizes the camp.
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Study shows abuse of painkillers may be linked to depression, suicide in college students
June 1st, 2012The study by researchers in the emerging West Virginia University School of Public Health and Western Illinois University shows that college-aged females who abuse painkillers are more likely than males to feel depressed and suicidal. -
The Grand Challenges Explorations grant is part of an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Drs. Bryan O'Hara and Vazhaikkurichi Rajendran will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled "Resistant Starch Derivatives to Treat Chronic Diarrhea."
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West Virginia University will be well represented as more than three dozen undergraduate and graduate students and their research professors will share aspects of their work at a prestigious event in Charleston where the director of the National Science Foundation, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller and a representative of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be featured participants.
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WVU team offers updates on obesity prevention efforts
April 3rd, 2012One year into a $4.7 million, five-year effort to prevent childhood obesity, a team of West Virginia University scholars will offer a progress report at ?Choose to Change? community kickoff events in Charleston and Morgantown in April. -
WVU's Engineers Without Borders work to bring clean water to Fiji village WVU medical students have been working in since 2010
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WVU scientist designs novel system to monitor air around Marcellus wells
February 10th, 2012Ensuring that thousands of Marcellus shale drilling sites comply with environmental regulations is a gargantuan task that one West Virginia University researcher is working to make as simple as checking a computer monitor from the office. -
'It's the right thing to do:' WVU physicians care for West Virginians through 21st Century house calls
January 11th, 2012'21st Century house calls' are just one way West Virginia University fulfills its land-grant mission. "This is the West Virginia University for all of West Virginia." -
Oman Medical College renews WVU affiliation
December 9th, 2011Oman Medical College, which trains physicians, pharmacists and other health professionals on two campuses in the Sultanate of Oman, has extended its relationship with the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center. -
WVU research: BPA may contribute to diabetes
December 9th, 2011Adults with higher levels in their urine of a chemical that's commonly found in food and beverage packaging could be at increased risk of developing diabetes, according to new research from Anoop Shankar, M.D., Ph.D., an epidemiologist and associate professor in the West Virginia University Department of Community Medicine. -
New chair named for new department in WVU School of Medicine
September 19th, 2011The West Virginia University School of Medicine has named Geraldine Jacobson, M.D., to be the founding chair of the newly established department of radiation oncology. -
Gibson named first Osborn Distinguished Professor in Hematological Malignancies Research
September 12th, 2011Laura Gibson, Ph.D., will be installed as the first Alexander B. Osborn Distinguished Professor in Hematological Malignancies Research at the West Virginia University School of Medicine on Sept. 13.
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