A West Virginia University professor joins the ranks of luminaries Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman and Nobel laureates as the recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Oersted Medal from the American Association of Read More
A pair of researchers from West Virginia University has developed a new model to reliably predict the greenhouse gas fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane in coastal wetlands under rising temperatures and Read More
West Virginia University continues to be part of a multimillion dollar effort across a 10-university alliance to support STEM education for underrepresented students in Appalachia. Funded for a third phase by Read More
Marshall University’s Department of Public Health has established the Minority Health Institute to address health disparities and health equity among minority and underserved populations in the state of West Virginia. Read More
Hindered by access to high-quality healthcare, West Virginia children demonstrate some of the worst health outcomes in the nation. More than 25 percent of West Virginia children live in poverty. Read More
Emil Czul (pronounced “Sewell”), a late West Virginia University alumnus raised in Lochgelly and a 1950 graduate of Oak Hill High School, is making certain that future generations from Fayette County will Read More
The largest estuary in the U.S., the Chesapeake Bay, is home to more than 300 species of fish and numerous shellfish and crab species. It’s also home to Vibrio bacteria, Read More
The Kentucky-West Virginia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (KY-WV LSAMP) program, spearheaded by the University of Kentucky, has received $3.5 million in renewed funding over the next five years Read More
Twenty years ago, Zijian Xie, Ph.D., director of the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and professor in the department of biomedical sciences at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School Read More
Improving shale energy productivity and reducing the environmental footprint of the natural gas industry are the goals of a West Virginia University partnership at a second Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Lab to be Read More