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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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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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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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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

Life Reclamation

Gerod Buckhalter had tried everything to get sober. Then he was offered another chance with a brain surgery.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

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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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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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

Hacked Off

WVU aims to fill the cybersecurity gap with a noble kind of keyboard warrior.

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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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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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Jim Kutsch and guide dog taken at The Seeing Eye.

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Blind Ambition

Jim Kutsch lost his sight from a fireworks explosion when he was a teenager. He still became an engineer and created a reading technology for blind people.

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Fall 2019
Alumni Diary

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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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Spring 2020
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The Fashion Designer

Colleen Moretz started in fashion by making clothes for her Barbie dolls. Now she’s working with industry to create a standard for clothing sustainability.

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Mapping the Food Conversation

Lauri Andress investigates why people don't have access to food.

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Spring 2020

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Spring 2020

Big Green Data

Botanicals have been used throughout history in human culture from spirituality to health.

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Fall 2019

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Fall 2019

The lives they’ll live

Ziler Hawkins makes friends everywhere she goes, especially at WVU Medicine Children’s where she was one of thousands of children whose lives have been saved. Now that life-saving ability is growing with a new hospital.

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Our Country’s Music

Mountaineers, from Kathy Mattea to West Virginia song writers, explore the meaning of Country Music coinciding with Ken Burns’ documentary.

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