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Up to 20 percent of people with opioid use disorder may not respond to standard treatment. A new study at West Virginia University seeks to understand why.

The WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities was awarded funding to continue serving as West Virginia’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. The WVU CED is one of 67 UCEDDs funded to address issues, find solutions, and advance research to improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families.

West Virginia University alumna Elleyse Gemondo just took her modeling career to the next level, landing her first national magazine cover earlier this summer.

Building on a strong foundation of practice-based learning, the West Virginia University School of Public Health has added a seasoned practitioner to its leadership team who will help provide faculty and students the opportunity to teach, learn and engage in public health practice.

Poverty, food security, teacher shortages and public health disparities are among the many issues facing West Virginia’s future. Research that meets the needs of West Virginians is at the core of West Virginia University’s land-grant mission. Graduate education is the catalyst that has the potential to solve these problems, says Gregory Dunaway, dean of WVU’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

The West Virginia University Foundation is recognizing those alumni and friends of WVU who have created endowed scholarships, fellowships and student awards in calendar year 2016.

WVU wrestling coach Sammie Henson will coach the U.S. freestyle team at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in Paris this August.

West Virginia University football senior running back Justin Crawford and redshirt junior quarterback Will Grier were named today to the watch list for the 81st annual Maxwell Award, and senior safety Kyzir White and junior safety Dravon Askew-Henry were named to the 23rd annual Bednarik Award Watch List, as announced by the Maxwell Football Club.

The technology developed by researchers at West Virginia University that helped them win the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge may be headed to Mars.

The West Virginia University Board of Governors on Monday (July 10) began the process of enacting new policies and procedures in the wake of the state Legislature’s adoption of laws permitting more independence from the state Higher Education Policy Commission.