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Recent social movements, such as the women’s march and #MeToo, have brought gender to the forefront of public discussion. 

Erin Cassese, an associate professor of political science at West Virginia University, has been selected to contribute her expertise on gender in American politics to Gender Watch 2018, a non-partisan project dedicated to tracking, analyzing and illuminating gender dynamics in the 2018 election.

WVU researcher illuminating gender dynamics in 2018 election

Recent social movements, such as the women’s march and #MeToo, have brought gender to the forefront of public discussion.

A West Virginia University researcher is uncovering how firearm evidence and latent fingerprint evidence helps solve crimes by finding the “perfect match.” If a cartridge case was found at a crime scene, the investigator will compare cartridge cases to determine if they originated from a specific firearm. Keith Morris, the Ming Hsieh Distinguished Professor of Forensic and Investigative Science, focuses on the variability in the impressions that are created on the cartridge case from a particular firearm.

It's a match

WVU forensic and investigative science professor researching connection between fingerprints and firearms

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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