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WVU researchers take aim at making one of West Virginia’s biggest resources safer for all.

Commencement is always an exciting time for students graduating, but for mother and son Drs. Aisha Rizwan and Umer Rizwan, the 2022 May Commencement provided a moment they will never forget.

Both athletic training and exercise are all about adaptation. Every bead of sweat, every burning breath, every minute tear in muscle fiber — it all adds up to something. Every time the body heals, it grows stronger, more confident, more capable. At least,

West Virginia University engineer Piyush Mehta is currently engaging in several projects confronting space weather, which deals with the conditions within the Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere.

At times, graphic design — the creation of visual content to communicate messages — can become something bigger than client service or the selling of a product, something fueled instead with purpose for the benefit of society at large.

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

Hannah Bush’s sweet voice fills a small room as it softly registers just above the acoustic guitar she plays; the rhythm underneath not a drum or a tambourine, but the steady beeping of a ventilator and other medical machines.