Researcher Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the WV Water Resources Institute and a part of the Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI) of WVU, is hard at work on a new system to help coal and gas companies protect water resources associated with mining and drilling.”
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WVU researchers under the supervision of Suzanne Bell, assistant professor of forensic and analytical chemistry in WVU's C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, are investigating whether the standard cleaning and purifying procedures used to clean homes and apartments that previously served as meth labs really work.
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West Virginia University researcher Lesley Cottrell, Ph.D., presented the results of her study on physical fitness and academic performance in young people to the American Heart Association Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism in San Francisco and received considerable national press coverage. Her work with children in Wood County, WV, (in the photo) conducted with her WVU colleagues Karen Northrup, MSN, and Richard Wittberg, Ph.D., (inset), suggests that focusing more on physical fitness and physical education in school would result in healthier, happier and smarter children.
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New honorees joined past winners of the Robert C. Byrd Professorships at West Virginia University recently for 2010 induction ceremonies. The professorship program was established in 2004 by the WVU Research Corp. to recognize WVU faculty for outstanding achievement and distinction in research and other scholarly work including technology development, technology transfer and commercialization. The honor is named in recognition of the career and service of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd. Pictured, left to right are, first row: new honorees David Lederman, Jamal Mustafa and Ismail Celik. Second row: past honorees Kimberly Horn, Peter Gannett, Larry Hornak, Bojan Cukic, Earl Scime, Laura Gibson, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova and Mridul Gautam. Not pictured, Mark Koepke
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Xingbo Liu is an award-winning materials scientist and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the West Virginia University College of Engineering and Mineral Resources who is working hard with a group of WVU students in the struggle to improve ways to use coal and help the US become energy independent. 

While most of West Virginia University is on summer break, a small group of students is working in labs in every corner of campus. Listen as six students discuss the value of their early research experience at WVU and as WVU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
WVU manages several technologies that we seek to commercialize through collaborative research and/or licensing.