Pro sports do not translate to increased tourism dollars in terms of hotel demand, based on recent findings by Brad Humphreys, professor, and Adam Nowak, associate professor, of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.
Research
Professor of Physics Mark Koepke has been appointed a Mercator Fellow for 2020. He will collaborate within the Collaborative Research Centre for Low-Pressure Low-Temperature Plasma Science and Engineering with professors Julian Schulze and Peter Awakowicz at the Ruhr University - Bochum in Bochum, Germany.
TransTech Energy Conference & Pitch Competition offers faculty and undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to showcase their energy-related research to experts in the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio Tech Belt Region. The conference will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn—Southpointe, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, (55 miles north of Morgantown, WV on I-79).
A School of Medicine researcher is developing an app to train key personnel in rural areas how to identify and report one of the lesser known elements of the opioid epidemic — child sex trafficking.
Research led by Ian Rockett, professor emeritus of the School of Public Health, applies a wider lens on how suicides and drug deaths that implicate self-injurious behaviors could be categorized.
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences faculty in the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry are simplifying experiments in mass spectrometry, a method commonly used by chemists, biologists, physicists and forensic scientists for analyzing molecular materials