The Food Justice Lab and a network of farmers are working to bring local food to local tables.
On empty fields across the Mid-Atlantic, forests of skinny stalks are rising to revolutionize industries.
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.
Betty Puskar survived breast cancer. Then she helped other women in West Virginia have a better chance to do the same.
Every decade, there's a new plan to take on cancer. This one is the most impressive yet.
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.
The University had just days to decide how to close campuses of thousands while still offering education and healthcare and continuing vital research.
Months ago, a woman did something that in easier times would not have been unusual. She gave blood. And then it changed everything.
In the fall of 1918, Morgantown canceled events and school was closed because of a dangerous illness circling the globe.
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.
A researcher is investigating the use of an anti-itch cream as a substitute pain reliever.
Billions of dollars have been spent in response to the opioid epidemic.
Botanicals have been used throughout history in human culture from spirituality to health.
How do patients who need consistent care in rural areas get the treatment they need? Now, they’re going online.
Put this fungus with these bugs and they start going crazy.
As you root, root, root for the home team, take a look at how America’s pastime actually works.
Are all those supplements you take every day helping you? This researcher has answers.
Everyone is dating online. But how do you make those dates a success? Liesel Sharabi has studied this for a decade.
WVU aims to fill the cybersecurity gap with a noble kind of keyboard warrior.
Gerod Buckhalter had tried everything to get sober. Then he was offered another chance with a brain surgery.
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.
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.
Lauri Andress investigates why people don't have access to food.
Recovering from an injury can be a challenge. A WVU professor explores the psychology of sports injuries.
In a time long gone, the American chestnut tree stood tall as an economic and ecological anchor of the East Coast.
Practicing on cadavers prepares the doctors of tomorrow for real surgery.
Meet the guardians of West Virginia’s rivers and streams.
The changing climate is embedded in our trees, bees and trash.