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.
The West Virginia University School of Dentistry is upholding the University’s commitment to improve health care for West Virginians by creating opportunities for hands-on experiences that have contributed to an increase in practitioners choosing to stay in the Mountain State following graduation.
If research being conducted at West Virginia University pays off, debris that litters the planet’s orbit and poses a threat to spacecraft and satellites could get nudged off potential collision courses by a coordinated network of space lasers.
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.
An altruistic mentor to fraternity members, a posthumous inductee influential in improving the dining experience across campus and a licensed social worker devoted to helping students in recovery will be honored for their outstanding contributions to West Virginia University.
Future geologists and engineers studying at West Virginia University are using the same advanced software as oil and natural gas professionals thanks to an in-kind gift from Petroleum Experts Limited worth nearly $6.4 million.
As the West Virginia University Police Department continues to focus on community policing, the latest Clery Act report shows declines in campus drug and alcohol arrests and citations, but increases in reports of some other crimes.
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.
West Virginia University will hold a bell-ringing ceremony, coordinated by the Office of Campus and Community Life and Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, on Friday (Sept. 29) in remembrance of Elizabeth O'Leary, Patrick Van Kirk and Brady Zelmore.