MORGANTOWN – WVU's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute recently received national media attention for its groundbreaking research in Alzheimer's disease and drug addiction. An Alzheimer’s patient undergoes focused ultrasound treatment with the WVU RNI team. We sat down last week and ...
MORGANTOWN – House Speaker Roger Hanshaw stepped down from his dais on Friday to promote a bill to give $2 million to WVU's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute to support its groundbreaking research. And the House held an extended debate on a resolution to support Texas in its fight with ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia University officials, coming off a painful year of budget and personnel cuts, told lawmakers Wednesday the outlook for the coming year is stable with some financial headwinds. “We have made difficult decisions at West Virginia University. Change is never easy,” President Gordon Gee told members of the House Finance Committee during a budget hearing Wednesday afternoon. “We are doing more with less.” WVU took steps to address the likelihood that the university would face a $45 million gap during the current fiscal year. University leaders dealt ...
CHARLESTON — The House Finance Committee advanced a bill that would provide $2 million to West Virginia University for medical research into using ultrasound technology to treat eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. HB 5014 is sponsored by House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, who told Finance Committee members that it’s “to change the lives of tens of thousands of West Virginians.” The legislation would provide the money for the current fiscal year, relying on surplus funds. Dr. Ali Rezai, executive chairman of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at WVU, ...
The third-annual Eberly Roundtable, hosted by the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, will feature a screening of the film, “King Coal” followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, WVU alumna Elaine McMillion Sheldon. This year’s event will kick off at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 in G20 Ming Hsieh Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free, and the WVU community and public are invited to attend. “The Eberly Roundtable models the importance and value of engaging in dialogue with one another across different disciplines and backgrounds about topics of public importance,” ...
It was Sneakerhead Night Wednesday as the WVU women’s basketball team took on Houston in a mid-week Big-12 match-up. Fans were encouraged to wear their best sneakers and swag and enter to win prizes throughout the night, including a pair of WVU color Nike Dunk Lows or basketball ...
