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Researchers want to know how overdoses affect the brain

WVU Today An opioid overdose isn’t a death sentence. In fact, estimates indicate that in the United States, only 4% to 18% of opioid overdoses that are treated in a hospital or pre-hospital setting — such as an ambulance or someone’s home — actually kill the patient. But there’s ...

Evansdale Library to host 9/11 exhibit

Newsroom@DominionPost.com WVU Libraries will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy with “September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed the World,” an exhibit at Evansdale Library that presents the history of 9/11 and its ongoing implications through the personal stories of ...

Meeting them where they are

WVU Today About 90% of Americans who need treatment for a substance use disorder don’t get it. West Virginia University researchers have developed a program that allows people who have already walked the path of substance use disorder through recovery to be their guides to a healthier ...

WVU experts seek communal solutions

WVU Today Researchers at West Virginia University have used a localized flooding event to envision how human beings can live with the threat of water invading their living and working spaces. In understanding those tragic lived experiences, Nicolas Zegre and Jamie Shinn have developed a ...

Team earns $2.9 million to monitor wastewater statewide for COVID-19

MORANTOWN -- Just like the COVID-19 virus itself, the means of monitoring and testing for it in wastewater have evolved into a new beast more than a year later. In 2020, West Virginia University researchers would prop open a manhole cover, dip down a bottle to collect wastewater and then ...

WVU engineers take on data transfer limits during space exploration

MORGANTOWN -- Engineers at West Virginia University are helping to solve one of the greatest limitations of space exploration — sending and receiving information between a spacecraft and the ground station — thanks to a $750,000 award from NASA’s highly competitive Established Program ...