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Maggie Anderson, author of ‘Dear All,’ to give reading Oct. 30
The Department of English at West Virginia University will host a reading by poet Maggie Anderson on Monday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the WVU Downtown Library’s Milano Room.
LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars
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More than a mentor
WVU social work professor honored for mentorship
Tradition runs deep
Gaziano family creates WVU English professorship
Annie Barrows, author of ‘The Truth According to Us,” to give reading Oct. 17
The Department of English at West Virginia University will host a reading by Annie Barrows on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the WVU Downtown Library’s Milano Room.
WVU awarded $1 million grant from NSF for new High Performance Computing cluster
A three-year National Science Foundation grant totaling nearly $1 million will let West Virginia University develop its next-generation High Performance Computing, or HPC, cluster to advance computationally intensive research in a wide array of fields, from drug delivery to genomics and astrophysics.

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.
WVU math senior awarded first Milliman Opportunity Scholarship
A desire to combine math and business in her future career led West Virginia University senior and McNair Scholar Maleesha Ebanks to receive the first Milliman Opportunity Scholarship, a scholarship for minority students who are underrepresented in the field of actuarial science.

Where is all the water from?
Nearly 80 percent of residents in Monroe County, W.Va. rely on local springs along Peters Mountain as their water source, whether it’s through their own private well or a public water service.
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.