Eberly News

Education in Prison Initiative Improves Access and Equity in Appalachia

Education in Prison Initiative Improves Access and Equity in Appalachia

It’s 7:00 a.m. and WVU graduate student Destinee Harper is dressing carefully for a day of teaching. Nothing too tight or see through, no open-toed shoes, no jacket, no cardigan or shirt with pockets. She wants to make sure she is allowed in the classroom. “I think that was a big part of that first week, was [sic] making sure that we were abiding by these rules, that they would let us in and that they wouldn't have a reason to say, no, you can't come in and learn in this space.”  

WVU charting public policy model to address state’s opioid crisis

WVU charting public policy model to address state’s opioid crisis

While solutions for addressing the opioid crisis often involve either beefing up law enforcement or widening the scope of health services, West Virginia University researchers said they believe the best approach is a synergistic mix of both.

Woman Making History poster overlaying various images from feminist movements.

WVRHC to host “Women Making History” exhibit opening

Monday, October 16, at 5 p.m. in WVU’s Downtown Library — “Women Making History” is a collaborative exhibit that features sections written and curated by students in the WVU History department as well as faculty and staff from WVU Libraries.

WVU researcher works to fast-track traditional research methods for quantum discoveries

WVU researcher works to fast-track traditional research methods for quantum discoveries

Decades-long searches for new quantum materials may now take much less time, according to a West Virginia University researcher who is speeding up the tedious process.

Native American Studies Program to Host 2023 Peace Tree Ceremony and Fall Forum

Native American Studies Program to Host 2023 Peace Tree Ceremony and Fall Forum

The Native American Studies Program at Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will host the Peace Tree Ceremony on October 9 and a forum with Native leaders on October 10 to highlight Native Nations’ ancestral, cultural and historical connections to the land now known as West Virginia.

Subhasish Mandal, WVU assistant professor in condensed matter physics, wears a plaid suit jacket, white button down dress shirt, dark plastic framed glasses. He has a dark, trimmed mustache and beard.

WVU researchers team up with AI in the search for advancements in quantum technology

Quantum materials such as giant magnets and superconductors may help in discovering new, faster technologies and energy-efficient electrical systems. 

Petex software gift boosts geology and engineering programs at WVU

Petex software gift boosts geology and engineering programs at WVU

Future geologists and engineers studying at West Virginia University are using the same advanced software as oil and natural gas professionals thanks to an in-kind gift from Petroleum Experts Limited worth nearly $6.4 million.

A West Virginia University study of American English and Spanish speakers’ pronunciation of certain consonants could change linguists’ understanding of how people learn to speak.

WVU linguists sound out how intensity and duration of speech shape pronunciation, rethinking language learning

In prior research, Jonah Katz, associate professor in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, had observed unusual patterns for consonants between vowels across “language after language.” Katz’s observations led him to question what most linguists believe: that these aspects of speech are learned by internalizing abstract rules about how to deal with, say, a “t” sound when it is between vowels within a word, as opposed to when it starts or ends a word.

Duct tape evidence holds up in court using innovative method from WVU Eberly College forensic scientists

Duct tape evidence holds up in court using innovative method from WVU Eberly College forensic scientists

Tatiana Trejos, assistant professor in the West Virginia University Department of Forensic and Investigative Science, and graduate student Meghan Prusinowski have developed a one-of-a-kind method that can help piece together a crime scene by literally piecing the evidence together. Or not.

woman with very long dark hair year wears an emerald green blouse and dark plastic glasses.

Eberly College researcher works to improve diagnosis speed for rare conditions like the one her child was ‘lucky’ to survive

Professor Katie Corcoran of the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will analyze national Medicaid data to evaluate how patients’ gender and race affect doctors’ diagnostic accuracy and speed, asking whether marginalized patients with symptoms that aren’t clear cut are more likely to experience diagnostic delays than patients from non-minoritized groups.