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Summer 2020
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Summer 2020
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The Way Forward

The University had just days to decide how to close campuses of thousands while still offering education and healthcare and continuing vital research.

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Coronavirus hotline with people answering phones.

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Summer 2020

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Summer 2020

Ask an Expert: Coronavirus Hotline

There is a call line in Charleston, W.Va., where a WVU professor and her staff and volunteers explain, as best they know, what to do when faced with the coronavirus. We asked her what working that hotline is like.

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Marisa Leuzzi wearing a Flying WV sweatshirt having just given blood.

Marisa Leuzzi in a sweatshirt at a hospital having just given blood.

Marisa Leuzzi in a Flying WV sweatshirt at a doctor's office.

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WVU grad one of first plasma donors in U.S. to save COVID-19 patients

Months ago, a woman did something that in easier times would not have been unusual. She gave blood. And then it changed everything.

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Illustration of baseball showing axis of spin, direction of travel, direction of spin and flight path of ball.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

The Physics of Baseball

As you root, root, root for the home team, take a look at how America’s pastime actually works.

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Image of two women with dating profiles superimposed over the group shot for each.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

Swipe Right: The Fine Art of Getting — and Keeping — a Date Online

Everyone is dating online. But how do you make those dates a success? Liesel Sharabi has studied this for a decade.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

Zombie Cicadas

Put this fungus with these bugs and they start going crazy.

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Suzanne Weise and Pat McGinley stand in the law library at WVU.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

Unmasking the Enterprise of Death

What started as a phone call from a reporter in West Virginia turned into a years-long legal investigation tracing opioid pills across the country.

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Summer 2020
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Summer 2020
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AMA President, alumna Patrice Harris Urges Americans to Stay Home

As the new coronavirus spreads the COVID-19 disease across the world, West Virginia University Magazine spoke with alumna Dr. Patrice Harris, current president of the American Medical Association, about the advice her association is giving the medical community and the rest of us at home.

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Red Cross nurses in Morgantown during the Spanish flu.

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Summer 2020
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2020 pandemic in Morgantown closely resembles 1918 pandemic in Morgantown

In the fall of 1918, Morgantown canceled events and school was closed because of a dangerous illness circling the globe.

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Episode 11 - How We Talk

On the cusp of high school, four girls in a rural middle school talk with researchers about why they talk they way they do and how hard they’ve tried to change themselves to be accepted by their peers.

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Spring 2018
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Successors

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Spring 2018
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The Startup to Watch

This young alum is a tech entrepreneur who developed a protocol that transmits data over audio.

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Fall 2019
Alumni Diary

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Fall 2019
Alumni Diary

Found in Translation

Shun Nakasone makes his living hanging out with tennis champs and Major League Baseball legends.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

The Supplement Debunker

Are all those supplements you take every day helping you? This researcher has answers.

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Fall 2019

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Fall 2019

John Chambers Changed the Internet — Now He Wants to Change West Virginia

John Chambers shook up the Internet as CEO of Cisco, now he has his sights set on home.

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Fall 2018
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Food is Local. Food is Global. Food is Complicated.

The Food Justice Lab and a network of farmers are working to bring local food to local tables.

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Fall 2019
Flashback

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Fall 2019
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A Peaceful Patriot

Tom Bennett took out his tape recorder and dictated a letter home to his family in Morgantown, W.Va. He mentioned his location: “Somewhere in the great, noble land of South Vietnam – at least I hope it’s South. I’m pretty sure it is.”

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Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin among spinning lights.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

A Celestial Heavyweight

Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer look for a kind of star called a pulsar. Here's how they found the most massive pulsar recorded so far.

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Spring 2020

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No Place Like Home: Testing Out Telehealth

How do patients who need consistent care in rural areas get the treatment they need? Now, they’re going online.

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Fall 2019
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The Last Word
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Fall 2019
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The Beautiful Day In Our Neighborhood

In 1995, Fred Rogers gave the commencement address at West Virginia University. He believed that we make life more beautiful in the pursuit of our dreams.

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