Prepping for Doomsday: The Fight Against Disaster
Through their continuing work, WVU researchers are giving communities hope and the tools to prepare, rebuild and recover.
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Lights, HVAC, Action!
Last summer, a small group gathered at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, Mingo County. Energy efficiency is the museum’s big issue, with some of the most critical challenges stemming from past renovations.
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Picking your brain
Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine, part of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, are learning how the central nervous system is influenced by internal factors and outside influences in our environment.
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We are West Virginia’s only R1 university. This is why it matters.
West Virginia University has been reaffirmed as an R1 university, the highest possible research ranking, by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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Out of this World
“Our ultimate goal Is to generate interest and excitement around science through sports. We create programs that are tangible and hands-on so the science makes sense and comes easy."
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Going with the flow
As chaotic as a stream's path may look, it's part of a vast network of interconnected and ever-widening bodies of water that ultimately lead to the largest oceans and seas. WVU researcher Jason Hubbart says it's the world's circulatory system.
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This old thing?
Katie Jones believes the garb of West Virginia’s ghosts can tell us how those people lived and who they wanted to be.
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One for the books (and manuscripts)
It’s admittedly not as fast as a Google search, but the depth and breadth and height of Appalachia’s yesterdays available in the West Virginia and Regional History Center at West Virginia University are worth the time investment.
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'A Persistent Challenge'
Can family structures influence climate change? This WVU student is searching for the answer.
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Sam Joneswood: (K)not your average researcher
It’s admittedly not as fast as a Google search, but the depth and breadth and height of Appalachia’s yesterdays available in the West Virginia and Regional History Center at West Virginia University are worth the time investment. And the possibilities of
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Hailey Barrett: Captain to coach
In 2013, the WVU Tennis program needed to fill the vacant head-coaching position. Terri Howes (BS, ’85; MS, ’89) was the Senior Associate Athletic Director, so “I went through a lot of coaching searches,” she explained. “I always felt it was crucial for t
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The Doctor Is In The Academy
Dr. Sally Hodder, director of the West Virginia CTSI, housed at West Virginia University, didn’t always want to be a doctor. But her decision to become one led to one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
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