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Wednesday, May 16th 2012

Final steps before a new journey to be someone

While our lives as college students may be over, our lives as teachers, computer programmers, journalists, artists, geologists, lawyers, doctors, engineers, accountants and speech pathologists, just to name a few, are about to commence.
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WVU's growing art collection soon to get new home

The art collection, that numbers nearly 3,000 works, will soon have the chance to be seen more frequently as pieces rotate through The Art Museum of WVU. The museum, now in the final stages of design, will live on what is now a grassy field beside the Creative Arts Center in Morgantown.
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Chelsea Hodgkins honored as WVU's ninth Boren Scholar

Chelsea Hodgkins becomes WVU's ninth Boren Scholar, and sixth in four years.
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WVU professor to help direct mine safety and health research fund

Keith Heasley has been selected as one of three directors of a $48 million research fund created to improve mine safety in the wake of the Upper Big Branch disaster that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in April 2010.
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No backyard brawling at this fair!

West Virginia University heads to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh on the prowl for more top students.
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Memories are made here: WVU launches website celebrating Class of 2012

WVU launches website to pay homage to this year's batch of graduates about to embark on a new chapter in their lives.
Melissa Latimer: helping advance the cause of women in science

Find out more about Latimer as a scientist and how she balances her personal and work lives on this new video, the first in a series of videos that give glimpses into the lives of the female faculty at WVU showing the meeting place between who they are and what they do.
WVU researchers study how to keep wind turbines out of eagles' flight path

WVU researchers discover eagles opt to get to feeding grounds fast and that helps decide where wind turbines can be built that don't interfere with flight paths.
WVU taps steel drum ensemble to showcase folklife at summer Smithsonian festival

The WVU Steel Drum Band leads University's delegation for Smithsonian 2012 Folklife Festival in Washington, a two-week celebration of land-grand institutions.