A new robotic gripper for fruit picking, designed by Anand Mishra and a team of roboticists in the Statler College, could mean supermarket shoppers enjoy better quality produce as well as new options like pawpaws.
Research
The purpose of this research study is to examine the impact of discussion on memory, and how personality affects both discussion and memory. Participants must be employees or students at WVU who are at least 18 years old and not colorblind.
Though rural women entrepreneurs make up only a small portion of the self-employed across the United States, a new study from the WVU Regional Research Institute shows they are crucial to overall economic success.
Led by Jesse Thompson and Dr. Chris McCartney, the event brought together learners and faculty for a day of expert-led sessions, presentations and learning.
Researchers at the Center for Excellence in Disabilities are conducting a study to explore how stress, puberty and behavior are connected in children ages 7-13 who have autism spectrum disorder.
According to research led by planetary scientist Christopher Fowler, data beamed back from Mars by the NASA spacecraft MAVEN provides the first evidence that a phenomenon protecting planets from solar winds can occur in the atmospheres of worlds that lack strong magnetic fields.