At WVU’s Inhalation Facility, Timothy Nurkiewicz and his research team are safely recreating burn pit conditions to study why they cause such health risks and how they’ve made veterans sick.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium is an in-person, judged poster session featuring students engaged in summer research programming at West Virginia University.
President Gordon Gee will travel to Greenbrier, Monroe and Kanawha counties. Previously announced stops in Pocahontas County on Wednesday (July 27) will be rescheduled later this year.
As inflation surpasses 9% and investors brace for the possibility that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates a full percentage point, two West Virginia University economists point out that the pain is not created equal, with the economic tailspin hurting some businesses more than others.
Chainsaws are widely used by landowners looking to reduce the effort required for cutting wood and clearing land. West Virginia University Extension experts Ben Spong, forest operations specialist, and Pat Donnelly, Timber Safe grant research assistant, provide safety tips to help avoid serious injuries, and even death, when operating a chainsaw.
Hosted by the Center for Financial Literacy and Education in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University, Finance University is now in its 20th year. This year's event will run from July 24-28.
The Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design's Energy Land Management program is leading E3: Energy, Environment and Excitement Summer Camp, an immersive STEM-based education camp that runs through July 23.
West Virginia University researcher Maura McLaughlin, distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, is available to explain how this new technology will enhance the work she and her colleagues do at WVU as well as future endeavors for students.
Bernard Schreurs, a researcher with the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, studies sex-linked disparities in Alzheimer’s disease.
From economic impact to policy and climate change implications, a variety of West Virginia University experts can discuss the United States Supreme Court’s ruling that curbs the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to limit carbon emissions at existing power plants. In the case of West Virginia vs. EPA, justices voted six to three in siding with the coal industry and Republican-led states seeking to limit the powers of the EPA.