This four-year study, led by John Hollander, professor and senior assistant dean for Research and Graduate Education in the School of Medicine Department of Human Performance, was funded by a more than $2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
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A team led by Piyush Mehta, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has received federal funding to detect, identify and track lethal non-trackable space debris.
Tatiana Trejos, assistant professor in the Department of Forensic and Investigative Science, and graduate student Meghan Prusinowski have developed a one-of-a-kind method that can help piece together a crime scene by literally piecing the evidence together.
Undergraduate researchers presented their research and creative works during the 16th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on July 27 in the Mountainlair. Congratulations to the winners and runners-up.
West Virginia University, the state’s flagship, land-grant R1 institution, reported a record $231 million in externally supported expenditures, which are mainly designated for research, for fiscal year 2023. In this Inside WVUToday video, WVU Vice President for Research Fred King talks about how this feat reinforces the University’s standing as a top research institution in the country.
Given their research showing public health suffers when a professional sports team makes its home in a new city, West Virginia University economists are asking whether publicly funded subsidies for sports arenas make sense.