The West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education, in partnership with Teaching and Learning Commons, will host world-renowned author, educator and activist, Sheila Tobias, to campus for a public lecture on changing the culture of teaching math and science to build a stronger pipeline in STEM fields.
West Virginia University and the Arts and Entertainment center are hosting Mountaineer Week, a week full of events, shows, projects, fairs and more to celebrate 72 years of Appalachian culture and heritage.
The WVU Student Healthcare Alliance for Promoting Equality is hosting a series of events during LGBTQ+ Health Week (Nov. 1-8) to help students and health care professionals better understand health issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community.
Cervical cancer rates are higher among women in Appalachia due to a variety of factors ranging from health policy to biology. Electra Paskett’s research focuses on how healthcare interventions at the individual, physician, clinic, organization and community levels can impact cancer prevention, detection and treatment among underserved populations, including rural Appalachia.
A West Virginia University expert says the Murray Energy bankruptcy was “inevitable,” citing coal as no longer cost effective in energy production. “It’s a matter of economics,” according to James Van Nostrand, director of the WVU College of Law’s Center for Energy and Sustainable Development. Van Nostrand said numbers remain favorable for renewable energy projects over continuing to operate existing coal plants.
WVU Extension Service will host the annual Women in Ag conference Nov. 15-16 at Stonewall Resort in Roanoke.
The Department of Mining and Industrial Extension at West Virginia University will host several teams of students from WVU, Virginia Tech, Penn State University and the University of Kentucky, in the 2019 Fall Eastern Collegiate National Mine Rescue Contest.
The TransTech conference, held Oct. 28-30 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, will highlight energy-related technology in the tri-state region: smart/advanced manufacturing, reduction of carbon emissions and examples of an energy efficient, sustainable economy for the future.
This year’s campus read “Educated: A Memoir” has inspired an entire podcast at West Virginia University. Geoffrey Hilsabeck, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English and a community outreach fellow in the WVU Humanities Center, wanted to create this podcast so that his guests could reflect on the author’s story from their own perspective, and explore the similarities between this true story in rural Idaho and their personal experiences growing up in West Virginia.
For the past 32 years, crowds of elementary, middle and high school students accompanied by friends, teachers and guardians have gathered around the 11-story Engineering Sciences Building to watch hundreds of pumpkins, each weighing about 60 pounds, fall from its roof, hopefully not to their doom. The Pumpkin Drop is Friday (Oct. 25) from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside the Engineering Science Building on WVU’s Evansdale Campus.