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WVU Student Participates in NASA’s Propulsion Academy

WVU Psychology Professor Studies Middle-Aged Video Gamers’ Cognitive Abilities

WVU Chemistry Professor Receives $293,000 Recovery Act Grant for Molecule Research that Could Fight Cancer

Legos for Learning Program Helps WVU 4-H Engineer New Science and Technology Opportunities for West Virginians

University of Connecticut Physics Professor Visits WVU to Lecture on Time Travel

WVU Part of Team Set to Improve Rural Business Incubators

WVU’s Grant Funds to Demonstrate Precision Agriculture Protects Water

WVU Chemistry Assistant Professor Awarded NSF CAREER Grant Worth $550K

WVU Biometrics Researcher Developing Improved Smart Camera Networks

Natalia Schmid

DOE Again Chooses WVU-Based Alternative Fuels Consortium for $1.6 Million Educational Mission

WVU Researchers Awarded $1 Million to Advance Cancer Studies

Research Experience for Teachers in Energy and the Environment Readied by WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

WVU Researcher Xinbo Liu Wins Prestigious Faculty Fellow Award

WVU Research Designed to Monitor and Evaluate Greenhouse Gas Storage Nets $1.3 million from DOE

WVNano Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship

MIT Grad Leads WVU Research Center in Fuels, Engines, Emissions

Chris Atkinson

WVU Board OKs White Hall and Biomed Projects, Expanding Research in STEM Disciplines

Mining Executive Donates $1 Million to WVU for Energy Research

WVU to Host Biomass Energy Conference

WVU Summer Research Program Provides International Twist

WVU Gets $1 Million to Research Marcellus Natural Gas Field Waste Water Treatment Process

Morgantown Could be Next Hydrogen Highway Stop

Psychology Professor Receives Fulbright to Research Cross Cultural Exchanges in New Zealand

WVU-Based Alternative Fuels Training Consortium Nets $6.9 Million ARRA Grant

WVU Researchers Produce First Study of Homeless Patients in Hospital Emergency Rooms Nationwide

Donor Pledges and State Matches Will Translate Into $6.5 Million for WVU Research

Recovery Act Helps Underwrite Cancer Research

WVU Physics Department Awarded Recovery Act Funds for Key Research

WVU Biology Professor Receives Research Grant from Army

Students from Around the U.S. to Present Summer Research Projects

WVU Organic Research Farm Hosts Field Day

WVU, Fisher Energy Collaborate on Wind Energy Project

WVU Engineering, Dentistry Researchers Team Up to Improve Oral Health

Four New Entrepreneurial Companies Join the WVU Business Incubator

WVU Eye Institute Receives Grant for Blindness Research

Business Research Shows Morgantown Continues to Buck National Economic Downturn

WVU Engineering Researchers Successfully Test New Tunnel Safety System

WVU Team Develops Anti-Infection Technology

WVU-Based Consortium Implements Cutting Edge Hybrid Vehicle Training

WVU Expert Discusses Renewable Energy Production on Mined Lands in Appalachia

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WVU Research in the News

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Hears WVU Expert During Football Head Injuries Hearing

Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee put National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell on the defensive today, pressing him to explain how he is making the violent game safer for players and what he’s doing for disabled retirees. But Dr. Julian Bailes, a former Steelers team doctor who works at West Virginia University and has studied the brains of deceased football players, said the league has been too slow to embrace the science. Read more at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WV Cancer Researchers Push for Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Special Medical Journal Edition

Cancer researchers and physicians in West Virginia have come together to work toward making breast cancer a manageable and treatable issue. Fifty-nine of the state’s leading cancer physicians and researchers have written 13 articles for a special breast cancer edition of the West Virginia Medical Journal, in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “Community health-care centers need to work together to address the overwhelming cancer burden in the state,” said Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center Dr. Scot C. Remick. Read more in the Charleston Gazette.

DC Metro Authorizes Clean-Fuel Research Contract for WVU

The Metro board authorized a $184,528 contract Thursday for the West Virginia University Research Corp. and the transit agency to conduct bus emissions testing to help the agency determine which bus type is the cleanest option. Read more in the Washington Post and
Washington television station WJLA’s web site.

WVU to Create Environmental Research Center

West Virginia University is getting a $1.7 million federal grant to create an Environmental Research Center to help address the often conflicting concerns of economic development and environmental protection. The money is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the school announced Tuesday. “The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life for citizens of West Virginia and beyond,” said Jim Anderson, a professor of wildlife and fisheries resources who will direct the new center. Read more in the Washington Examiner. and the San Francisco Chronicle.

WVU Researcher Comments on Agri Scientists’ Discovery of a New Mite, ‘Mangalaus’

NEW DELHI: Indian scientists have discovered a mite, which is one of the smallest in the world and causes galls on the leaf of plants, particularly in herbs. The statement describing the discovery quoted West Virginia University (USA) acarologist James Amrine. Read more on the Hindu Business Line from India.

WVU Wildlife and Fisheries Resources Grad Appears in National Geographic Episode on PBS

NATURE/RHINO: Monica Stoops, an alumna of WVU’s Wildlife and Fisheries Resources program, appeared in an episode of Nature on PBS. The episode “brings you face-to-face with the world’s five species of rhino, each struggling, with varying degrees of success, for their continued survival.” Stoops is working at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, part of a team conducting research and developing techniques for artificial insemination of the Indian rhinos. Learn more at PBS Nature.

State Bioscience Group Formed

West Virginia’s bioscience firms have started a new group in hopes of expanding the biotech industry across the state. The BioScience Association of West Virginia will be made up of biotech companies and organizations, as well as research groups at Marshall University and West Virginia University. The statewide association will be an affiliate of the National Biotechnology Industry Association. Read more in the Charleston Gazette.

Researchers Earn NIH Grants

Money helps study of nanomaterials, psychiatric drugs

Two biomedical researchers at WVU have won competitive grants of nearly $2 million total from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the new Challenge Grant program. Timothy Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., will study the effects of nanoparticle inhalation on the tiny blood vessels that are the site of origin of many cardiovascular diseases. James O’Donnell, Ph.D., will lead a team of scientists at three universities working to identify a new biological target for drugs that treat depression and anxiety. Some 20,000 scientists and research teams across the country submitted applications, with fewer than 800 selected for funding. Read more in the Dominion Post.

Upcoming Conference Will Focus on Regional Development

The Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University and the Economic Development Administration are coming together to focus on regional development during an upcoming conference. Randall Jackson is director of the WVU Regional Research Institute and also a professor in the university’s geology and geography department. The RRI, founded in 1965, focuses on regional economic development research. Read more in the Fairmont Times West Virginian.

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