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Research Updates

Common forms updated on SciENcv

SciENcv Common forms certified before 9/09/26 are only good for applications submitted through 9/25/26, as the previous certificates have now expired as of 9/26/26. Any applicant unable to successfully submit their application by the NIH deadline due to this change, would be required to follow the NIH late submission policies for the sponsor's consideration of accepting the late application:

Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy
Dealing with System Issues

WVU joins Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon FSRDC network

WVU researchers will gain access to some of the nation’s most detailed federal data through the University’s new membership in the Federal Statistical Research Data Center, jointly operated by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

E-news Article

We are R1

West Virginia University is West Virginia's flagship land-grant, doctoral degree-granting research university. We are one of only eighteen land-grant institutions in an EPSCoR state recognized as R1.

Research and Development Expenditures

sponsored awards
Fiscal Year Total
2025 $256.5M
2024 $259M
2023 $246M
2022 $214M
2021 $200M
2020 $188M