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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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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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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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Match up

This battlefield is not a jungle or desert. Rather, it’s a sophisticated office space — tucked inside Reynolds Hall, home of the Chambers College of Business and Economics — equipped with workstations, servers, computers and secure networks.

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Walking the walk at WVU

“We are creating prosperity for the people of this state so that we can keep our young people here. And we make certain that we are focusing clearly on enticing the best and brightest to come to WVU.” — WVU President Gordon Gee

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‘Not in the shadows anymore’

In the decade since the tragic death of Nolan Burch, his parents and WVU have worked together to recreate fraternity and sorority life into a positive and healthy community of peers, not just on WVU's campus, but around the country.

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Once a Mountaineer

We’ve cheered them on to great victories and offered support after disappointing losses, hoping for the day we’d see them receive accolades as sports professionals. Most of all, they exemplify what it means to be a Mountaineer.

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Always a Mountaineer

West Virginia University alumni are sprinkled throughout our staff and faculty, representing to the students they encounter that the foundation built here can construct a career that gives back to the University and the state.

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Book Value

Jayne Anne Phillips (English, ’74) writes about what she knows best — her home state of West Virginia — but the recent Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner feels that being a writer is complicated. She can explain.

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Good Medicine

Student teams travel underserved areas in the western hemisphere to bring healthcare, sanitation and nutrition, all the while learning about the world and themselves.

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Miles of Smiles

Over the Kanawha River and through the Monongahela National forest, West Virginia’s winding roads are leading future dental professionals to small towns and healthcare deserts across the state.

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A Playground of Innovation

It’s always a good day at work when it feels more like play. Innovation is the name of the game at WVU.

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Feared and Revered: All Eyes On AI

As an experiment and way to help exhibit AI as a tool and resource, all images within this feature were created using an image generator using prompts directly from the story. The direct keywords used are underlined in red for each image.

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Riding the Waves

As WVU repositions itself, Fred King sees the Mountain State’s flagship, land-grant institution weathering future storms and, despite a changing higher ed landscape, remaining a premier research institution. Trust him, he’s done his research.

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Love and Science

A chance date. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Research. Breast Cancer. All of these factor into a love story that has withstood "in sickness and in health."

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From the source: WVU’s student-run media

Student-run media at WVU is much more than an extracurricular activity — it’s an experience with the power to supercharge careers and transform an industry.

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Meal Ticket

WVU's health care providers write prescriptions for fresh vegetables, see the results in patient health.

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An uptick in confronting ‘the silent epidemic of this decade’

Expanding deer populations and rising global temperatures have paved the way for pesky, parasitic ticks to thrive and spread illness to Americans at a more dramatic pace in recent years.

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Committing to Memory

By 2060, the number of Americans with Alzheimer’s is projected to soar to 14 million. Researchers at West Virginia University are working feverishly to impede that trend as much as possible – and to focus on innovative ways to treat existing patients.

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Energy Evolution

At West Virginia University, researchers across varying disciplines including geology, forestry and engineering are exploring alternative and sustainable pathways to power the nation.

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Exceeding the Vision

Gazing through the vast floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Monongahela River from the building bearing his name, Bob Reynolds, BS ’74, reflects on his days as a West Virginia University student.

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Little Big Moments

"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

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The Fence at the Top of the Cliff

Perhaps nothing is so simultaneously inspiring and frightening to any creator as a blank slate, like the one presented a decade ago to the faculty and staff of the WVU School of Public Health.

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Ten Years. One Team, Hundreds of Communities

If every resident of Clendenin gathered to watch a match at WVU’s Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, there would still be 650 seats to spare. The town’s population of about 1,000 isn’t enough to sustain its own mall, movie theater or Walmart. When flooding destro

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Reinventing the Steel

Sorry, Spot. After a look at research underway at the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, one might think that humanity has a new best friend in robotic form.

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