Researchers at West Virginia University have developed a computer-based flight data recorder (FDR), commonly called a "black box," they say would cost a fraction of what new proposed FDRs with extended recording capabilities would cost the nation's airlines.
A new product invented by an Auburn University professor and being developed at West Virginia University may change the way disinfectants are applied in fighting diseases such as tuberculosis and Legionnaires' disease.
After testing emissions from buses and heavy-duty vehicles in 32 cities researchers at WVU have found that alternative fuels have a strong potential to reduce particulate matter and other pollutants in urban areas. Results of the study were recently published in Environmental Science and Technology, the journal of the American Chemical Society.
The WV economy is forecast to grow and become more diversified for the next five years, according to West Virginia University researchers. The growth is slower than it was in the first half of the 1990s but is still expected to average 1.4 percent through 2002.
West Virginia University and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have signed a unique agreement that will allow the school to offer the world's first degree programs in forensic identification.
A recent study, published in the Western Journal of Communication, by a West Virginia University assistant communications professor suggest that sons and daughters pattern their aggressive verbal styles after their mothers.
West Virginia University has formed a partnership with the nation's largest supplier of information management software to provide the school's financial and human resources management database system.
As nationwide efforts to reduce disability rolls increase the number of people re-entering the workplace with physical and mental challenges, today's businesses will need, more than ever, information on how to make the federally mandated accommodations.
A national sporting goods company's pitch to a West Virginia University faculty member may become a hit with youth baseball and softball players-in-training.
Development Dimensions International Inc., an international human resource consulting firm, is giving a $125,000 grant to the Center for Chinese Business at West Virginia University to hold workshops in China and sponsor one Chinese participant per year for three years in the Shanghai Municipal Government Executive Education Program in Morgantown.
Researchers at West Virginia University are developing a revolutionary fiber-reinforced polymer composite deck for repair and replacement of bridges throughout the United States. The new product could more than triple life expectancy of the nation's bridges.
WVU's new forensic identification program continues to make favorable `impression,' gets $5 million boost to upgrade engineering and computer science virtual reality laboratories and to bring the lab facilities on par with FBI crime center labs.
West Virginia University has installed an IBM RS/6000 Supercomputer to run its new data center.
The long wait typical of a visit to the doctor's office could be a thing of the past if researchers at West Virginia University's Concurrent Engineering Research Center have anything to say about it. CERC has been awarded a contract for almost $100,000 to do research into telemedicine via the Next Generation Internet.
Coal-related industries could get a shot in the arm under a recent agreement between researchers at West Virginia University and Touchstone Research Laboratories to develop a new foam product from coal.
An applesauce-like substance brewed by West Virginia University researchers could be the answer to controlling a disease that has all but wiped out the American chestnut.
Rocket Boy Homer H. "Sonny" Hickam of the popular movie October Sky will address nearly 3,000 West Virginia University graduates and their families Sunday, May 16, during 130th commencement exercises at the Coliseum. Doors open at noon; no tickets are necessary.
Forests may be a potential buffer against global warming by absorbing a portion of projected increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, say researchers from West Virginia University and three other institutions.
West Virginia University and six industry groups, together with the U.S. National Guard Bureau, have announced a public and private partnership to apply information technology to help communities in the United States and across the globe respond to natural or man-made disasters. These partners have formed the International Telemedicine Collaboratory.
A genetic map of the rainbow trout is being developed by a West Virginia University researcher to locate traits that could increase production of the freshwater fish for sport and consumption.
To address the critical national issue in math literacy, West Virginia University has announced creation of an Institute for Math Learning.
Cisco Systems CEO and West Virginia University alumnus John T. Chambers will address graduates at his alma mater Sunday, May 13, when he gives the 1:30 p.m. main address at WVU's 132nd Commencement at the WVU Coliseum.
Two Morgantown sisters devoted to their pets and the care of animals gave their life savings -- an astounding $18.4 million -- to West Virginia University, officials announced Tuesday.
A new program at West Virginia University is designed to prepare doctors and emergency personnel to respond to terrorist attacks on American soil.
Does intelligence decline with aging? That question being debated among psychologists worldwide will be the focus of a study by a West Virginia University Assistant Professor of Psychology.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have thrust West Virginia University's cutting edge bachelor's degree program in biometrics into the national spotlight. The program was established in December 1998 in cooperation with the FBI.
Two unique programs receiving national attention will be spotlighted when West Virginia University hosts two media fellowships. Space is limited, so interested reporters should apply now.
A West Virginia University alumnus and Emmy Award-winning composer drew on his reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in writing a special score in honor of the WVU Marching Band's 100th birthday.
West Virginia University music professor Christopher Wilkinson has written Jazz on the Road, Don Albert's Music Life. The book was released in October by the University of California Press in Berkeley.
College students don't usually have money to give away. But they do at West Virginia University's College of Business and Economics.
The West Virginia University Research Corp. and Protea Biosciences Inc.--a new, Morgantown-based biotechnology company--recently signed an agreement to develop and commercialize discoveries made in WVU's Core Proteomics Laboratory.
Faculty and staff from the West Virginia University Extension Service have teamed with Extension colleagues from the University of Maryland, Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University to plan a conference for persons concerned with midlife issues.
Imagine taking a trip to Mars without leaving the familiar confines of your computer work area. The voyage is now possible by using the latest in multi-media technology: a DVD-ROM, co-authored by a West Virginia University Professor.
The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at West Virginia University, the world's only major research institute focusing on human memory, received a personal gift of $15M from the family of United States Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV).
Just days after the U.S Surgeon General declared that the nation is in the midst of an obesity epidemic, Congress has given final approval for funds that U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., added for a new Center on Obesity at West Virginia University.
The world's population continues to grow dramatically. Will there be enough food to go around? Scientists at West Virginia University will showcase what they are doing to make sure there is during a fellowship program for journalists June 23-26.
A West Virginia University law professor says Andrea Yates' attorneys may need to prove that their client's long-standing mental illness developed into a postpartum psychosis if she hopes to escape murder charges and the death penalty in the deaths of her children.
West Virginia University's Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center has been awarded an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
A group of acclaimed war correspondents, writers and broadcasters, including George Esper, Hugh Mulligan and David Sweeney, will offer West Virginia University students a detailed study of the evolution of war reporting and the role of the war correspondent.
The man who helped take Oracle Corporation to the top of the computer software industry and now guides established businesses in Internet opportunities and entrepreneurial strategies will give the main address at West Virginia University's 133rd Commencement.
The saying "You Gotta Have Heart" couldn't be better exemplified by two students who graduated Sunday (May 19) from West Virginia University. One literally. The other for his pure stamina to go beyond the normal limits of college learning.
West Virginia University's new research initiative in forensic science is attracting national attention. Twice in May, a video crew representing Court TV filmed and interviewed WVU forensic science researchers.
West Virginia University scientists have manipulated chemical waves in experiments that may one day lead to controlling abnormal electrical waves in the heart or brain to ward off a heart attack or epileptic seizure.
The West Virginia University Press will publish an important piece of West Virginia writing that has been forgotten both by West Virginians and the world at large.
Three sports medicine experts contend that ephedrine and creatine use among football players may be a factor in a surge of heat stroke deaths since 1995.
A West Virginia University chemist and five other researchers have taken a quantum leap in predicting the orbits of celestial bodies, research that could one day help scientists accurately foretell if an asteroid or comet is headed for earth.
The recent rescue of nine trapped coal miners from the Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., illustrates just how important it is for miners to be ready for any emergency.
The terrorists who crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon last Sept. 11 served only to strengthen the global resolve against such violent acts, a West Virginia University sociologist says.
The brutal slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is a grim reminder of the perils faced daily by journalists covering the war on terrorism, says a West Virginia University journalism professor who was a Vietnam War correspondent.
Before last Sept. 11, when you used the word biometrics around most folks, you got that "deer in the headlights" look. But times have changed since the attack on America, and people are quickly understanding that biometrics could play a big role in U.S security.
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