Discoveries by West Virginia University forensic scientists about how gunshot residue behaves on skin, hair and fabric will allow crime scene investigators to catch up to the proliferation of new, eco-friendly types of ammunition and make faster, more informed decisions at crime scenes and in forensic laboratories.
Twenty undergraduate students at West Virginia University are recipients of the competitive national award funded by the U.S. State Department to allow for travel abroad without financial constraints.
Emily Garner, assistant professor at the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has launched a five-year study to learn more about biofilms. Known as “cities of microbes,” biofilms are conglomerations of fungi, algae, bacteria and other single-celled organisms that cling to each other and to surfaces.
Two West Virginia University alumni with successful careers in information technology and health care were elected to the WVU Foundation Board of Directors at its annual meeting.
More than two dozen researchers with ties to West Virginia University have helped unearth evidence of ripples in spacetime that have never been observed before now. This result emerged from 15 years of data acquired by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, or NANOGrav.
Small and medium-sized businesses have access to free pollution prevention and productivity improvement consulting thanks to grant support enabling West Virginia University industrial engineers to leverage their expertise on behalf of local enterprises.
With funding support from the Pittsburgh-based Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Natural Resource Analysis Center at the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design is building upon its expertise with drones to develop tools that can detect, map, treat and monitor invasive species such as multiflora rose.
Josh Eilert, who has spent the last 16 seasons on the Mountaineer basketball staff, will serve as head men's basketball coach at West Virginia University for an interim period, University Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker announced Saturday (June 24).
The West Virginia University Board of Governors, after two days of meetings, approved on Friday (June 23) a balanced budget for the coming fiscal year aimed at streamlining and strengthening the WVU System for the future.
West Virginia University announced the resignation of Head Men's Basketball Coach Bob Huggins following his June 16 arrest on a DUI charge in Pittsburgh.