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School of Social Work jumps to top 100 in latest U.S. News graduate rankings

The  School of Social Work at  West Virginia University shot up into the top third in the latest rankings of graduate programs by  U.S. News & World Report.

West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education received $100,000 from the Eberly Foundation to support WVUCE-STEM’s teacher education program, WVUteach, to produce additional STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) secondary education teachers. The funding will support a master teacher assistant, allowing nearly 100 additional students to enter WVUteach over the span of four years.

WVU Center for Excellence in STEM Education receives $100,000 Eberly Foundation grant to expand WVUteach program

Through WVUteach, the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education is set to produce nearly 25 STEM teachers each year, accelerating the pace of placing certified teachers in vacant West Virginia classrooms. 

Kristyn Lizbinksi, a doctoral student studying biology at West Virginia University.

When science and art collide

WVU biology student wins first place in national science photo contest

Jonathan Cumming has always been interested in plants and the way they grow. A professor of biology at West Virginia University, it all started when he was growing plants in his house as a child and, years later, he chose to focus his career on identifying specific plants and how they thrive in different types of soil. 

Today, he is studying willow and poplar trees by analyzing their differential sensitivity to soils that are left behind after mining by using the inductively-coupled plasma emission spectrometer, or ICP, which will allow researchers to analyze elemental profiles of samples. The ICP is used not only to analyze plant genotypes to determine their metals and nutrients, but to analyze soils and water samples as well and can support research by faculty and students across the Department.

Regrowth

WVU biologist to use reclaimed mines for plant growth

Friends and family of late WVU grad create C. Patrick Laughlin Endowed Scholarship

Friends and family of late WVU grad create C. Patrick Laughlin Endowed Scholarship

Years after graduating from West Virginia University, Carl Patrick Laughlin (BA Arts and Sciences, ‘53) became a physician for many of America’s best-known astronauts as a part of NASA’s Space Task Group.

Justin Mathias

WVU biology students investigate the impact of climate change on Appalachian forests

Biology students at West Virginia University are studying the impact of climate change on the forests of the Appalachian Mountains.

Steve DiFazio

Growing the future: WVU biologists team up to research new bioproducts

WVU biologists team up to research new bioproducts

Kevin Daly

WVU biologists awarded $1.4 million Air Force grant to examine moths’ olfactory systems

As humans walk and talk, we sense our own movements or sounds. Yet, we can distinguish our actions from everything else in our environment that affects our senses.

George Bicher

Funding the future

WVU finance grad creates STEM scholarship 

WVU Core Arboretum hosts summer nature series beginning June 6

Local and regional experts on a variety of topics will speak at the WVU Core Arboretum this summer as part of its new Nature Connection Series.