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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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Summer 2021
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Summer 2021
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Crushing COVID

WVU researchers ventured into the sewers, developed software for robots and tapped into renewable wood, all in the name of science and fighting COVID-19.

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Fall 2020
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The Meaning of Home

Where is home? For a lot of people it's in a shared culture.

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Spring 2021
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Spring 2021
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How to Build a Hockey Team

A woman wanted to play her favorite sport, ice hockey, at WVU. But there wasn't a team. So she and a bold group of women made a team out of hard work and hard knocks.

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Illustration of doctors with a backdrop of vaccines that look like missiles with large cancer cells in the background.

Spring 2021
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Spring 2021
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An Old Fight with New Weapons

Every decade, there's a new plan to take on cancer. This one is the most impressive yet.

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Gordon Gee with his arm around Betty Puskar who is holding roses. They are at a football game.

Gordon Gee with an arm around Betty Puskar at a football game.

Spring 2021
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Spring 2021
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A Survivor's Legacy

Betty Puskar survived breast cancer. Then she helped other women in West Virginia have a better chance to do the same.

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Spring 2020
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Hacked Off

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

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Arts & Culture
Spring 2019
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Arts & Culture
Spring 2019
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Holding Back The Flood

The outdated U.S. regulatory structure must be dismantled, say two professors.

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Episode 8 - Through the Math Forest

There was this teacher who believed that the way math was taught could be different in her very rural county. That kids could better understand it and make it their own. That they could score much higher. That teachers could stay longer. She was right.

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Jingxin Wang standing in a brown field where trees are being grown for a biomass project.

Jingxin Wang stands on a brown field where trees are being grown for a biomass research project.

Summer 2021
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Summer 2021
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Rise of the Biomass

On empty fields across the Mid-Atlantic, forests of skinny stalks are rising to revolutionize industries.

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Yew Choong Cheong teaches a student at the piano.

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Summer 2016
Alumni Diary
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Alumnus Creates Music Even After He Stops Hearing It

Yew Choong Cheong was in love with the piano. And then he lost most of his hearing. But he kept playing anyway.

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Savannah Lusk at her family's restaurant

Summer 2018
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Summer 2018
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A Chance For New Life

Behind WVU's latest $1.2 billion campaign are real stories -- many waiting to be unraveled -- linked to every penny.

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Coronavirus hotline with people answering phones.

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People
Summer 2020
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Summer 2020
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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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The Legend of the Flying WV

Experience the symbol that unites Mountaineers as one. See how the Flying WV logo evolved from the minds of its creators more than 30 years ago.

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Bruuuuuuuuce! Super Bowl Champ with a Mountaineer Heart

Bruce Irvin battled through his youth to find his place in life. And that place was WVU. He is an NFL player now but has fond memories of his time here.

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Spring 2018
Final Frontier
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Spring 2018
Final Frontier
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A Dream of Mars

One of the finest amateur robot minds outside of NASA has put WVU's robotics program on the map.

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Spring 2019
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Spring 2019
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The Future of Water

Water researchers are pushing for a network of weather monitoring stations.

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Thinking It Through
Spring 2015
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Thinking It Through
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Better Policing

Criminology professor James Nolan was a cop in “Murder Town USA” and has researched crime with the FBI. He’s got some ideas on how to create policing that works.

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The Way Forward

Crushing COVID

Recommended Reads

The Meaning of Home

How to Build a Hockey Team

An Old Fight with New Weapons

A Survivor's Legacy

Hacked Off

Holding Back The Flood

Episode 8 - Through the Math Forest

Rise of the Biomass

Alumnus Creates Music Even After He Stops Hearing It

A Chance For New Life

Ask an Expert: Coronavirus Hotline

The Legend of the Flying WV

Bruuuuuuuuce! Super Bowl Champ with a Mountaineer Heart

A Dream of Mars

The Future of Water

Better Policing