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Released: 4-Sep-2019 9:00 AM EDT
An Unexpected Path to Discovery
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

When Alec Neu arrived at West Virginia University in 2013, he never expected to end up at NASA. Now, with a degree in journalism and work experience in Greece under his belt, Neu has his sights set on the sky as he returns to WVU for a second degree.

Released: 26-Aug-2019 8:05 AM EDT
Project forges pathways for underrepresented faculty
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Researchers at West Virginia University are helping universities nationwide overcome barriers to STEM faculty careers for women and underrepresented minorities.

Released: 19-Aug-2019 7:05 AM EDT
Study Investigates Rural LBGTQ Youth’s Motivations for Participating in Activism
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Researchers have spent the intervening years since the passage of marriage equality studying the young adults comprising the next generation of LGBTQ activists to understand their aspirations for the movement’s future.

Released: 24-Jul-2019 8:05 AM EDT
Rural students prepare for STEM majors through new summer camp
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Nine West Virginia students starting college this fall attended an immersive, on-campus STEM research camp. It's part of an NSF INCLUDES grant to improve college enrollment and retention rates of first-generation rural STEM majors.

Released: 17-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Physicists receive $2 million for new plasma physics center
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

West Virginia University physicists received a $2 million federal grant to create a plasma physics research. It will be the only facility in the world capable of making detailed three-dimensional measurements of the motion of ions and electrons at kinetic scales.

   
Released: 16-Jul-2019 7:05 AM EDT
West Virginia 4-H youth experience Eastern Woodland Indian traditions
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

West Virginia University’s Native American Studies Program partnered with WVU Extension Service to host a Native American Eastern Woodland cultural expert at county 4-H camps in June.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT
A philosophy that puts ethics into everyone's hands
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

How do we make ethical decisions? Existentialism suggests every person has the freedom—and responsibility—to choose the most ethical way to live. This was the topic at the International Summer Conference in Continental Ethics, hosted at West Virginia University from June 19 to 22.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 9:20 AM EDT
WVU chemist is a molecular architect
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

West Virginia University chemist Kung Wang is an architect. Not the kind that builds houses – one that designs molecules. Wang is constructing a synthetic pathway to creating new molecular templates for growing carbon nanotubes

Released: 19-Jun-2019 8:05 AM EDT
Trekking to the top
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Growing up riding four-wheelers and collecting rocks near her grandparents’ cabin in the valleys wedged between the Rocky Mountains, Shelby Isom’s childhood was an adventure.

Released: 31-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Biology student to investigate the role of soils in climate change across global ecosystems
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

A West Virginia University graduate student is investigating how soils store carbon in ecosystems around the world to understand the impact of climate change.

Released: 31-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Keeping the memories alive
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Researchers from West Virginia University are preserving the memories of a coal community through oral history and photography.

Released: 28-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Seven students to visit WVU for summer psychology research program
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

College students from across the U.S. will visit West Virginia University this summer for their first research experiences.

Released: 21-May-2019 9:45 AM EDT
WVU social workers support opioid recovery through new trainings
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Researchers at West Virginia University are fighting West Virginia’s opioid epidemic with new professional development opportunities for social workers.

   
Released: 20-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Psychology student first from WVU to study abroad in Slovakia
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

From Morgantown to Bratislava, one pioneering Mountaineer is making memories as the first West Virginia University student to study abroad in Slovakia.

Released: 16-May-2019 1:05 PM EDT
WVU receives $8.2 million software gift from LMKR for energy geology coursework and research
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

LMKR, an international petroleum technology company, has partnered with West Virginia University to expand student and faculty access to industry-leading software.



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