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Headshot of WVU faculty member Katherine Goodrich. She is standing outside with trees in the background. She is wearing a navy blue patterned blouse and has long, blonde hair.

Katy Goodrich honored with prestigious NSF CAREER awards

Katy Goodrich, assistant professor of space physics, receives 2024 WVU CAREER award. She believes her research project will make space science more accessible to institutions with limited resources. For her project, she’ll design a CubeSat, or miniature satellite, mission to study the Earth’s auroral acceleration region.

'A Meteoric Rise' features Physics and Astronomy research and education

'A Meteoric Rise' features Physics and Astronomy research and education

Take a walk through the stately brick and limestone White Hall, home to the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy, and you can almost feel it — the electricity of inspired minds. The faculty roster here is impressive even to a lay audience.

Eight Eberly faculty members recognized for excellence in teaching, research and service

Eight Eberly faculty members recognized for excellence in teaching, research and service

Eight members of the faculty in Eberly College of Arts and Sciences have been recognized for their excellence in teaching, research and service.

Written in the stars: WVU astrophysicists set to receive Shaw Prize, the ‘Nobel of the East’

Written in the stars: WVU astrophysicists set to receive Shaw Prize, the ‘Nobel of the East’

For Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin, working at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico set off a sequence of life events that would include marriage, children, finding a home at West Virginia University, an out-of-this-world scientific discovery and, now, earning a highly prestigious award described as the “Nobel Prize of the East.”

Powerful new GPU computing resources available to researchers across state

Powerful new GPU computing resources available to researchers across state

Faculty and student researchers at WVU and any other university or college in West Virginia can now request access to the new high performance computing cluster called Dolly Sods

WVU researcher works to fast-track traditional research methods for quantum discoveries

WVU researcher works to fast-track traditional research methods for quantum discoveries

Decades-long searches for new quantum materials may now take much less time, according to a West Virginia University researcher who is speeding up the tedious process.

Subhasish Mandal, WVU assistant professor in condensed matter physics, wears a plaid suit jacket, white button down dress shirt, dark plastic framed glasses. He has a dark, trimmed mustache and beard.

WVU researchers team up with AI in the search for advancements in quantum technology

Quantum materials such as giant magnets and superconductors may help in discovering new, faster technologies and energy-efficient electrical systems. 

A West Virginia University researcher will lead a group of students in developing emerging quantum technologies, thanks to $598,000 in funding from the Department of Defense.

Simulating WVU’s quantum future

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A West Virginia University researcher will lead a group of students in developing emerging quantum technologies, thanks to $598,000 in funding from the Department of Defense.

WVU recognizes three Eberly faculty members with 2023 Foundation Outstanding Teaching Awards

WVU recognizes three Eberly faculty members with 2023 Foundation Outstanding Teaching Awards

Each spring, West Virginia University recognizes faculty members for their exceptional and innovative teaching. This year, every faculty member selected for the 2023 WVU Foundation Awards for Outstanding Teaching is from Eberly College:

Eberly staff members receive 2023 Outstanding Staff Award

Eberly staff members receive 2023 Outstanding Staff Award

Miranda Heitz and Barb Reiprich have been named 2023 recipients of the Eberly College of Arts and Science Outstanding Staff Award.