West Virginia University researchers have received National Science Foundation funding to look at the effects of acid rain, with the help of area eighth graders, in Tucker County's Fernow Experimental Forest.
During his State of the University remarks at the Erickson Alumni Center on Monday (Oct. 23), West Virginia University President Gordon Gee said difficult but necessary decisions have put WVU in a position to invest and innovate, thus setting the University on a course to become the modern land-grant university of the future.
West Virginia University plans to offer a novel physician-engineer program that will include training in clinical and technical leadership in preparation for the emerging field of neural engineering as part of a consortium of other universities to help improve the care and rehabilitation of people with neurological disorders.
A West Virginia University team of industrial engineers is looking to turn $800,000 worth of Environmental Protection Agency funding into direct support for local industry.
While solutions for addressing the opioid crisis often involve either beefing up law enforcement or widening the scope of health services, West Virginia University researchers said they believe the best approach is a synergistic mix of both.
To address often decades-long searches for new quantum materials, Lian Li in the West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will identify ways to speed up the process with $980,000 in grant funding support from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future program.
With a $1.3 million Science Education Partnership Award, the Health Sciences and Technology Academy — based at WVU Health Sciences — will implement an outreach project over the next five years to train HSTA students to work with middle schoolers on community-based participatory research.
A three-year project based at the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will look at “BEST” programs, those which support engineering majors in building the skills they need to succeed, but often struggle to recruit students from underserved communities.
A researcher in the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is working to access remote ocean waters using multiple marine robots, carried and coordinated by an intelligent mothership, which can then communicate what they learn.
Reaffirming the commitment from West Virginia University to its land-grant mission, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has designated WVU as an “Innovation and Economic Prosperity University,” recognition that will help the University maximize its impact across West Virginia and beyond its borders.