A team of Mountaineers has won the Race to the Case Supply Chain Management Competition every year since 2015, as students captured WVU’s fourth consecutive Race to the Case crown Saturday (Sept. 22) in Pittsburgh among a field of teams that included the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University and Carnegie Mellon University.
Jennifer Oliva, an associate professor of law and public health at West Virginia University, will be a visiting research scholar at Harvard Law School in spring 2019.
The West Virginia University women’s soccer team has never had a losing season in its 22-year existence. Let that sink in. Roving GeeSPN reporter and WVU President Gordon Gee caught up with players and Coach Nikki Izzo-Brown recently to uncover what makes them consistently great.
Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at West Virginia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance security for machine learning mechanisms. The award comes with more than $237,000 in funding over a three-year period.
The West Virginia University College of Business and Economics will induct four graduates into its renowned B&E Roll of Distinguished Alumni during WVU Homecoming Weekend. This year’s honorees, who represent various industries, will be inducted during a ceremony and luncheon Oct. 5, at 11:30 a.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown.
One of the most intriguing characteristics of Generation Z is that a substantial percentage wants to start their own businesses and hire workers. That characteristic has prompted the West Virginia Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition to implement the Business Model Canvas in its academic year-long event, making it easier and more efficient for college students to communicate their business ideas.
Parkersburg native Jerry Wood has been tapped to lead the West Virginia University Office of Veterans Affairs, effective this month. As part of a recently announced reorganization, the this office now reports to the Office of the Provost, which conducted a national search for Wood’s position.
A research team from West Virginia University has been selected as a finalist for the Awards for Composites Excellence. Hota GangaRao, the Maurice and JoAnn Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, and doctoral candidate Praveen Majjigapu, have been named finalists in the Most Creative Application category for their NextGen Composite System.
Diabetics are at least twice as likely as nondiabetics to die of heart disease. They’re also at a greater risk of heart attack. With a two-year, $53,000 fellowship from the American Heart Association, Quincy Hathaway, a doctoral candidate in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, is examining how a certain protein, called PNPase, influences mitochondria’s performance in heart cells.
West Virginia University and Morgantown city leaders are working together to create solutions for the area’s health problems at their source by creating a community that supports wholeness and improves physical, mental and social well-being for residents.