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The Fence at the Top of the Cliff

The WVU School of Public Health celebrates a decade of making a difference.

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Smiling man in black suit with yellow background
Smiling man in black suit with yellow background
  • Winter 2022
  • z-slot-17
  • Science
  • People
  • current-issue
  • School of Public Health
  • Winter 2022
  • z-slot-17
  • Science
  • People
  • current-issue
  • School of Public Health

Leading through Uncertainty

When Dr. Jeff Coben looks back on the last few years, knowing then what he knows now about the novel coronavirus would have been valuable.

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2022 pumpkin drop aerial shot
  • Winter 2022
  • By the Numbers
  • Science
  • current-issue
  • Winter 2022
  • By the Numbers
  • Science
  • current-issue

Smashing Pumpkins

The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources resumed its popular Pumpkin Drop this year after a two-year hiatus.

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red tick on blue background
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  • Winter 2022
  • z-slot-5
  • Matter Of Fact
  • Science
  • current-issue
  • Winter 2022
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  • Matter Of Fact
  • Science
  • current-issue

Ticked Off

A team led by a biomedical engineering researcher hopes to ramp up and reimagine how medical professionals diagnose tick-borne infections.

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two people look at museum exhibit
two people look at museum exhibit
  • Winter 2022
  • z-slot-3
  • Matter Of Fact
  • Science
  • current-issue
  • Winter 2022
  • z-slot-3
  • Matter Of Fact
  • Science
  • current-issue

Neal Museum Dedication

WVU Health Sciences and West Virginia University Libraries dedicated the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences in October.

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TRUTH (text) over photo of burning paper
  • Research 2022
  • Science
  • main-feature
  • Research 2022
  • Science
  • main-feature

When The Smoke Clears

Slapped with a life sentence for murder, one man fights to prove his innocence with help from WVU law and forensic science experts.

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Two men using software to control robot
Two men using software to control robot
  • Research 2022
  • Science
  • slot-1
  • Benjamin M Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
  • Research 2022
  • Science
  • slot-1
  • Benjamin M Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Reinventing the Steel

Say "Hello" to Humanity's New Best Friend

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  • Spring 2022
  • main-feature
  • Science
  • Campus
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  • Spring 2022
  • main-feature
  • Science
  • Campus

Solving for the real world

Researchers from across campus crowded into the sleek Media Innovation Center with coffee in hand — curious and committed to nearly 36 hours of working together with some people they knew and a lot of others they did not. Provost Maryanne Reed stood at a lectern to kick off a hackathon — the kind of challenge found in Silicon Valley.

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Jingxin Wang standing in a brown field where trees are being grown for a biomass project.
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
  • Science
  • Campus
  • Summer 2021
  • Science
  • Campus

Rise of the Biomass

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

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Graphic of a blue face mask.
Graphic of a blue face mask.
A graphic of a blue facemask
  • Summer 2021
  • People
  • Science
  • Arts & Culture
  • Campus
  • Summer 2021
  • People
  • Science
  • Arts & Culture
  • Campus

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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Gordon Gee with his arm around Betty Puskar who is holding roses. They are at a football game.
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
  • People
  • Science
  • Spring 2021
  • People
  • Science

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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Illustration of pills, vaccine bottles and cancer cells.
Illustration of three doctors in white coats against a backdrop of vaccines that look like missiles.
Illustration of doctors with a backdrop of vaccines that look like missiles with large cancer cells in the background.
  • Spring 2021
  • Science
  • Health
  • People
  • School of Medicine
  • Spring 2021
  • Science
  • Health
  • People
  • School of Medicine

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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Photo of woman answering phone at coronavirus hotline.
Photo of woman answering phone at coronavirus hotline.
Coronavirus hotline with people answering phones.
  • Science
  • People
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • People
  • Summer 2020

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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Illustration of a mask
Illustration of a medical face mask
Illustration of a Zoom call with various images from a pizza box to sewing machine to canned goods, an admissions letter, horseshoe, mask and laptop.
  • Science
  • People
  • Campus
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • People
  • Campus
  • Summer 2020

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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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.
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • People
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • People

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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The south end of Woodburn Hall circa 1918.
The south end of Woodburn Hall circa 1918.
Red Cross nurses in Morgantown during the Spanish flu.
  • Science
  • Arts & Culture
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • Arts & Culture
  • Summer 2020

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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Patrice Harris.
Patrice Harris
Patrice Harris talks with person across table.
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • People
  • Summer 2020
  • Science
  • People

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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Researcher wearing mask and gloves.
Researcher wearing mask and gloves.
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science

Fighting the Itch

A researcher is investigating the use of an anti-itch cream as a substitute pain reliever.

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Group of white pills on a white background.
Group of white pills on a white background.
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Spring 2020

The Economics of Opioids

Billions of dollars have been spent in response to the opioid epidemic.

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Classical painting of man taking a plant material from a woman.
Classical painting of man taking a plant material from a woman.
Classical painting of man taking a plant material from a woman.
  • Science
  • Arts & Culture
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Arts & Culture
  • Spring 2020

Big Green Data

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

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Illustration of hand holding cell phone that has image of doctor on it.
Illustration of hand holding cell phone that has image of doctor on it.
Illustration of hand holding cell phone that has image of doctor on it.
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science

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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Cicada on a plant.
Cicada on a plant.
Cicada on a plant.
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Spring 2020

Zombie Cicadas

Put this fungus with these bugs and they start going crazy.

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Sketch of baseball player holding bat ready to swing.
Sketch of pitcher preparing to throw ball.
Illustration of baseball showing axis of spin, direction of travel, direction of spin and flight path of ball.
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Spring 2020

The Physics of Baseball

As you root, root, root for the home team, take a look at how America’s pastime actually works.

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Portrait of Safi Khan against a gray backdrop.
Portrait of Safi Khan against a gray backdrop.
Portrait of Safi Khan against a gray backdrop.
  • People
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • People
  • Science
  • Spring 2020

The Supplement Debunker

Are all those supplements you take every day helping you? This researcher has answers.

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Image of two women with dating profiles superimposed over the group shot for each.
Image of two women and a man with dating profiles superimposed over the group shot for each.
  • Arts & Culture
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Arts & Culture
  • Science
  • 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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Digitized photo of a man looking at a screen.
Digitized photo of a man looking at a screen.
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • Spring 2020

Hacked Off

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

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Closeup of Gerod Buckhalter.
Closeup of Gerod Buckhalter.
Closeup of Gerod Buckhalter.
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Science
  • 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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Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin among spinning lights.
Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin among spinning lights.
Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin among spinning lights.
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
  • Science
  • Spring 2020
  • Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

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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