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Partners in life and crime fighting at WVU
The evidence traces back to the University of Costa Rica. That’s where Luis Arroyo, a research assistant, met Tatiana Trejos, who was wrapping up her degree in chemistry. They became close friends, found common interests and fell in love. That love for each other – and unraveling truth through science – eventually led them from the “world’s happiest country” to the Mountain State.
WVU political scientist, students to look ‘behind the curtain’ at U.S. Supreme Court justices’ relationships
A West Virginia University researcher is studying newly released records of private communications between U.S. Supreme Court justices to learn how they interact and relate behind the scenes.
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.
WVU physicist creates device to accelerate quantum computing technology
An Eberly College researcher is working to create a collaborative program to investigate the fundamental physics of quantum photonic devices that may help advance the field of quantum computing.
'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.
WVU research reveals possible link between teen personalities, social media preferences and depressive symptoms
Teens using social media are vulnerable to depressive symptoms and some platforms, like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, may be linked to higher levels of depression than others, according to West Virginia University research.
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
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 advances the study of the human dimensions of cave and karst science and conservation in the Caribbean
What do caves and human geography have in common? That’s what West Virginia University’s María Alejandra Pérez, Associate Professor of Geography at the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, will be considering as she studies “ecologies of participation” in karst regions of Puerto Rico.
WVU researchers team up with middle school students to study potential benefits of acid rain
West Virginia University biologists will tap local eighth graders for help on research studying what happens when acid rain stops falling.