Expert Pitches

To mark National Dairy Month, a West Virginia University expert is sharing insights on the health benefits of dairy.

The outdoors are calling as summer rolls in and the knowledgeable staff with the West Virginia University Adventure WV program know just where to find the best recreational opportunities.

May is National Wildfire Awareness Month, and from campfires to grilling safely and all the summer fun in between, West Virginia University experts offer advice on marking fire safety off your seasonal bucket list.

As spring blooms and people spend more time outside, exposure to ticks and the diseases they carry increases significantly. Carlos Quesada, a West Virginia University Extension entomology specialist, is providing helpful information and advice about how to avoid tick bites this season.

Brad Humphreys, professor and associate dean of academic affairs and research at the WVU John Chambers College of Business and Economics, has studied college player decisions to either continue their educations or enter the professional sports landscape.

Thomas Wilson, emeritus professor of geology at the West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, reported the quake’s waves arrived in Morgantown and were recorded on the University’s seismograph within roughly one minute of onset.

To help connect autistic people and their families to important resources more efficiently, the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities has developed a new autism resources directory and interactive map focused on available Mountain State services.

John Saldanha, Sears Chair in Global Supply Chain Management, director of the Wehrle Global Supply Chain Lab, and professor at the WVU John Chambers College of Business and Economics, points to coal and automobiles as examples of two sectors affected very differently in the aftermath of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Hota GangaRao, a West Virginia University civil engineering expert, sees extensive recovery and rebuilding ahead following the Tuesday (March 26) collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore due to a barge collision.

Two West Virginia University experts with extensive knowledge of deepfakes and AI-assisted technologies are sounding the alarm about their prevalence in our daily lives at a time when headlines about potential AI-generated photos and videos, and questions by the public about what’s real and what’s not persist.