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As the most powerful storm to ever hit the Atlantic -- Hurricane Irma -- heads toward Florida, emergency management officials are relying on historical data in an attempt to predict the extent of the flooding the state might face. A West Virginia University civil and environmental engineering expert has developed a dynamic model that can predict flooding from rainfall providing a more accurate picture of what could happen across a region.

WVU President Gordon Gee will introduce speakers former U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller and American University President and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Clay Marsh, vice president and executive dean of WVU Health Sciences Center, will open the event with a welcome. Speakers and panelists will discuss progress and challenges related to children’s access to quality, affordable health care around the 20th anniversary of CHIP and the reauthorization of the measure which could occur this month. Discussions will also consider the future of health policy and the delivery of care during a year of potential major policy shifts.

Even as diversity on college campuses becomes more important, life for immigrants who came to the U.S. as children with their undocumented parents became more precarious Tuesday as President Donald Trump announced that he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, according to West Virginia University experts.

WVU's Amateur Radio Club will be conducting a radio contact with astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station on Monday, September 4, beginning at 11:40 a.m. They will also be hosting a day-long event for elementary and middle school students filled with hands-on STEM activities from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.