West Virginia University, it’s students and alumni, and the Morgantown community continue to celebrate Homecoming Week 2022. Thursday featured a blood drive with past Mountaineer mascots. More than 20 former mascots returned to campus for the Mountaineer Mascot Reunion, a three-day ...
The West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC) invites everyone to a virtual presentation titled, Women, Work, and Activism in the Coal Mines: Stories from the Women Miners Oral History Project at 7 p.m. Nov. 2. Jessie Wilkerson, an associate professor in WVU’s Department of History, and graduate student Emily Walter will discuss the oral history project and what they learned talking to women miners from the region. The Women Miners Oral History Project aims to collect and preserve the life histories of women in the Appalachian region who entered the mines as protected ...
BY AUTUMN SHELTON WV PRESS ASSOCIATION Popular media is full of the mad scientist character — typically an eccentric, erudite individual who somehow turns himself into a common housefly, shrinks his children, or uses a central finite curve to travel between dimensions as he strives to ...
Anderson Excavating continues to work on a $1.2 million project to replace all the existing asphalt around the transit authority’s Westover hub, 691 Fairmont Road. Project Manager Bob Pingley previously said the work will be broken down to address multiple areas. The asphalt in all ...
WVU TODAY A team of West Virginia University researchers is studying resiliency in flood-devastated communities with support from the National Science Foundation by delving into lessons learned from one of the deadliest West Virginia floods in recent memory. Jamie Shinn, project leader and assistant professor of geography in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, researches social vulnerability and climate change adaptation and has looked specifically at how people are affected by flooding. Shinn said there has not been a systematic documentation of the lessons learned in the ...
WVU TODAY On roads across West Virginia drivers may face a variety of conditions. From rain and fog to hills and sharp turns, drivers have to be prepared for the unexpected. For individuals recovering from traumatic injuries, these conditions can prove to be even more challenging. Now, the West Virginia University School of Medicine is providing new hope to help ease patients back behind the wheel, thanks to a new driving simulator. The simulator, operated by faculty in the Division of Occupation Therapy, is designed to emulate a Ford Focus and mimics a real driving experience ...
