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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

Sean McWilliams and Aaron Metzger

WVU’s Eberly College announces 2017-18 Outstanding Researcher Award recipients

The  Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University has named two recipients of the 2017-18 Outstanding Researcher Award: Sean McWilliams and Aaron Metzger. 

Waiting for the Z shot

When lightning strikes

WVU physicists among collaborators granted $7 million to form U.S. Department of Energy center of excellence 

Singh and Romero

WVU physicists tune the dynamics of exotic quantum particles

Physicists at West Virginia University have discovered a way to control a newly discovered quantum particle, potentially leading to faster computers and other electronic devices. 

WVU students receive NASA Space Grant fellowships

WVU students receive NASA Space Grant fellowships

Five students from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University have been awarded undergraduate fellowships from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. 

The human dimensions of water

The human dimensions of water

WVU geography professor researches the connection between water and gender locally and internationally

The sound of silence

The sound of silence

Using sound waves for biomedical breakthroughs

Zach Etienne and Sean McWilliams

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars

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WVU Social Work program trains students to meet needs of rural West Virginia

WVU Social Work program trains students to meet needs of rural West Virginia

The School of Social Work at West Virginia University is working to overcome the shortage of behavioral health care providers in rural and medically underserved communities in West Virginia. 

Paul Ziemkiewicz

WVU professors to present at 2017 Shale Insight Conference

West Virginia University professors Paul Ziemkiewicz, Shikha Sharma and Tim Carr will present research on technology in the shale industry at the Shale Insight Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 27 in Pittsburgh, Pa.