Ajay Aluri, an associate professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics and founding director of the Nemacolin Hospitality Innovation and Technology Lab, has been recognized as one of the 2026 IHI Global 100 Most Influential Educators in Hospitality and Tourism by the International Hospitality Institute.
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Ember Morrissey, Edward Brzostek, and Aldo Romero are recipients of a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grant that will be used to develop an artificial intelligence platform that could transform scientists’ ability to predict and engineer microbial communities.
Earlier this year, graduate students from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources spent a day at North Elementary School, helping fourth and fifth graders build and code their own Lego Milo robots.
Joe Lupo is presenting the collaborative exhibition “Not Approved by the Comics Code Authority” at the Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh through Aug. 29 with assistance from the Myers Foundations.
During a summer internship, Grant Joynes was invited to join a multi-agency task force to help investigate the 60-year-old cold case of Sgt. James Lee Haynes, who vanished while hitchhiking to his family home in Maben.
Thanks to the generous support of donors, the WVU Wind Symphony recently traveled to La Croix-Valmer in France to perform at the Festival des Anches d’Azur.