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Metal detectors to be added to WVU athletic venues

The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will introduce walk-through metal detectors at its major athletic venues this fall. The new additions to the entrance gates expand on the University's campus safety procedures and will make their debut at the Aug. 31 football home opener against Penn State at Milan Puskar Stadium.

WVU welcomes home new, returning students with Welcome Week activities

Offering a mix of activities for all West Virginia University students — new and returning — Welcome Week will run from Aug. 15-23, providing ways for students to have fun, explore their strengths, connect with others and give back to the community ahead of the start of the fall semester.

Walking the walk, WVU develops motion compatible brain scanner

An upright neuroimaging device developed by West Virginia University neuroscientists, physicists and engineers that allows patients to move around while undergoing a brain scan could help set priorities for the evolution of imaging tools.

WVU fast radio burst researcher says astronomy is for everyone

Physics and Astronomy graduate student Reshma Anna-Thomas grew up in the Indian state of Kerala and obtained a master’s degree in integrated physics from Pondicherry University before moving to West Virginia. She came to WVU to pursue her passion — radio astronomy — and she’s now in the fifth year of her doctoral program.