As West Virginia’s land-grant University dedicated to serving the Mountain State, WVU provides ample scholarship support to ensure higher education remains accessible and affordable for students across the state and beyond. During the 2024 fiscal year, the Office of Financial Aid awarded over $139 million to more than 16,000 students in partnership with the WVU Foundation.
Although surgery is a common treatment for patients diagnosed with biliary dyskinesia, or functional gallbladder disorder, a West Virginia University medical researcher is questioning why the practice has become so widespread when little clinical research is available.
Trisha Phillips is a native of Eugene, Oregon, an avid outdoor adventurer and works as a research ethicist at WVU promoting research integrity. Her work focuses on research misconduct, norms or best practices, and helping the University avoid unethical research environments which, she said, can impede the quality of work that happens on campus.
FallFest has been welcoming students to West Virginia University for 28 years, a Welcome Week tradition that will continue during this year’s concert Tuesday (Aug. 20) at the Evansdale Fields with performances by Yung Gravy, Shaboozey and COIN. The free show is open to WVU students with valid student IDs.
With $1 million in NASA funding, West Virginia University is preparing its undergraduates and students across West Virginia to build the robots that will build the future.
West Virginia University biologist Christopher Arnold from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences is studying why some animals can regenerate while others cannot. He has already identified the genes that play a role in the process and his research could provide insight into human development and disease, leading to enhanced understanding of factors underlying tissue regeneration and inspiring novel approaches to improving human health.
Clara Haizlett of Bethany, a West Virginia University graduate with a passion for storytelling and exploring cultural similarities between Appalachia and the Arab world, is the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright scholarship, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program.
For fiscal year 2024, West Virginia University crushed its record in externally supported research expenditures with $275 million — an 82% increase from five years ago. The University’s main strength areas — astrophysics, energy, neuroscience, cancer, forensics and robotics — continue to attract more financial support from federal, state and industry sources as well as private donors.
Bryan Khoo, a doctoral student and researcher at the West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics, recently used a vast trove of Uber data for three cities that are home to NFL teams — Cincinnati, Seattle and Santa Clara — to put a number on just how bad NFL stadium traffic gets. He found that, on average, the costs of fuel and time wasted by drivers stuck fuming in gridlock due to game day congestion will equal or even exceed each stadium’s construction costs and tax breaks over its lifetime of about 27 years.
Researchers at West Virginia University are working to ensure small landowners and local communities, instead of large corporations, profit from the ability of Central Appalachian forests to remove greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.