The robotics team at WVU has set its sights on the moon, launching off a long history of success in robotics competitions and NASA Centennial Challenges. After a year of competition in the Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2, the team has moved on to the final round.
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A new exhibit at the Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will highlight the role that music played in West Virginia’s logging communities as the timber boom arrived and transformed the region.
Signaling their commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and equity, the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy was recently named an APS Bridge Program Partnership Institution.
“Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy,” a new book of original research by WVU sociologist Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield, reveals the true scope of remote working possibilities by taking readers inside a digital nomad community in Bali, Indonesia.
Dana Voelker will serve as the new director of undergraduate online education for the WVU College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences beginning today (Jan. 19). In her new role, she will lead efforts to further expand online program and course offerings to better meet the emerging needs of the college’s undergraduate learners and prepare them for career success.
In this virtual conversation presented by the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences on Jan. 20 at 2 p.m., scholars will explore the ways in which recent events connect to longer trajectories of political violence, white supremacy and threats to democracy, both at home and abroad.