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A graphic depiction of a geothermal well with a sky in blue at the top and then two brown holes in the ground. A red and blue container fills the hole on the right.

WVU leading regional effort with $1M NSF award to accelerate energy technology, infrastructure

Members of the Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure team — spearheaded by Erienne Olesh, executive director at the WVU Office of Student and Faculty Innovation, and Sheena Murphy, associate vice president for research development at the WVU Research Office — will identify pathways for workforce development that align with energy technologies and policy development that accelerates adoption of those technologies.

WVU researcher Nicholas Szczecinski works with Clarus Goldsmith on a robot in the lab.
A window with a white Flying WVU sticker on it is shown here with a peek through the blinds into a room where people are working.
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WVU plant pathologist Mannon Gallegly poses in a field of crop rows. He is wearing a white shirt and holding on to the handle of a tool. His hand is covered in a yellow glove and he is wearing a beige bucket hat.
A student slouches in a char with the back of their head barely reaching a window. They are holding a blue iPhone in two hands that is almost entirely hiding their face.
A patient is shown on a hospital bed in front of a larger machine with seven medical professionals watching during a new kind of Alzheimer's treatment.
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An illustration showing an orange habanero pepper diagram and the pepper's genetic double helix on a computer screen that is sitting on top of a brown, wooden desk.
A person works in a lab. An arm is in the frame holding a large syringe that is being used to inject something into a piece of lab equipment. The stainless steel table top is covered with a variety of lab equipment.