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WVU and other colleges and universities across the country will unite to help promote an environmentally-friendly lifestyle on and off campus for National Campus Sustainability Day on Oct. 21.
A grand opening ceremony was held to celebrate the new Mountaineer Station at 1112 Van Voorhis Drive (in front of the Health Sciences Center PRT station) on Monday, Oct. 19.
WVU and Mountaineer fans will take on the University of Colorado, Auburn and five other schools in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Game Day Recycling Challenge, a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote recycling at their home football games.
World leaders, policy-makers educators and journalists are among those who will gather Sept. 24 and 25 at Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center for the G20 summit, a conference that will examine ways to stimulate the global economy.
WVU's second Transportation Week will be held from September 12-18 this year.
For the second time in a month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has looked to the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) for help, this time to provide educational assistance in reducing America?s petroleum use. NAFTC is headquartered at WVU?s National Research Center for Coal and Energy.
WVU will become a home away from home for a group of West Virginia high school math and science teachers for six weeks next summer as part of the new Research Experience for Teachers in Energy and the Environment Program.
West Virginia University researchers at work on a new approach to remotely monitor underground carbon dioxide storage have been approved to receive more than $1.3 million by the US Department of Energy (DOE).