Astronomical surveys mapping regions of the Galaxy have been collected and studied for decades. The international team, led by WVU associate professor Loren Anderson, took a new approach to their survey by focusing on the diffuse ionized gas, or DIG, in the Galactic plane.
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WVU’s latest NSF CAREER Award winner, Assistant Professor of Geography Aaron Maxwell, will use big data to map what the surface of West Virginia looked like over the last 60 years.
The College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences’ Sport and Exercise Psychology 474 Research Methods students recent capstone projects covered a broad range of projects, including psychological impacts of injuries, influence of social media, impact of involuntary retirement, eating disorder prevalence in female sports and interventions for athletes during COVID-19.
WVU physicists are uncovering secrets of the sun’s turbulent surface in the lab. A new study featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Physics of Plasmas is the first published research from WVU’s PHASMA experiment in the Center for Kinetic Experiment, Theory and Integrated Computation Physics.
Dr. Michael Edmond will speak as part of the Research Day Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday (May 7) at 8 a.m. This presentation titled "Finding Patterns in Chaos" will take place over Zoom and in-person at the Fukushima Auditorium.
Just over a year ago, the Office of the Provost launched its Most Valuable Player Awards to recognize outstanding teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by Service MVP awards during the Fall 2020 semester. Now, the Provost’s Office is honoring COVID-19-related research with a final round of MVP Awards.