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A WVU project took a West Virginia high school student across the universe and made him a star.

West Virginia University nanotechnology researchers have secured more than $2.4 million in federally-sponsored, competitive research awards to study drug metabolism, molecular identification, non-linear optics and new energy sources.

President James P. Clements and other officials will dedicate a new simulated underground coal mine at the WVU Academy of Mine Training and Energy Technologies facility near Morgantown Friday, Oct. 16 at 1 p.m.

West Virginia University President James P. Clements will discuss the involvement of higher education in the continuing drive to diversify West Virginia?s economy during a special panel discussion held as part of the annual Teaming To Win conference at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the I-79 Research Center in Fairmont.

Rehan Khan, associate chief information officer at the University of Georgia-Athens, was named WVU's chief information officer and associate provost for information technology, effective Oct. 30.

A team of West Virginia University researchers has received an $181,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to demonstrate precision agriculture?s effectiveness for protecting water quality in the Eastern Panhandle.

This summer, Dimitris Vassiliadis, professor at WVU's Department of Physics, and James Eakins, senior physics major, watched an experiment they built launch to an altitude of 73 miles on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket.

West Virginia University graduate Nicholas Hoylman's internship experience helped him land a job right out of college.

Originally constructed in 1917, Oglebay Hall has become West Virginia University's first building to obtain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

More than 700 WVU engineering freshmen are expected to attend the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources' annual Freshman EngineerFEST Wednesday, Sept. 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Assembly Rooms A and B of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy.