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A Different Kind of Science

 WVU Today  As West Virginians receive the COVID-19 vaccine at record rates, citizens credit the power of medical science for making that shot in the arm possible. But there’s a different kind of science that is driving a critical, yet less recognized role in the state’s ...

How WVU, Marshall and the state detect new variants

WVU Today Picture viral RNA as a single component  you can break into one million pieces. Now imagine reassembling those pieces, literally like a jigsaw puzzle. If there’s a chipped corner or if a piece won’t fit  as it should, consider that a virus mutation or ...

Treatment Offers Wave of Hope

WVU Today On the heels of the country’s deadliest year for drug overdoses, the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute launched a first-in-the-world clinical trial to investigate the use of focused ultrasound technology to treat those with opioid use disorder. The ...

Frying Up for Funding

WVU Today  The first livestreamed Bob Huggins Fish Fry raised $500,000 to benefit the Norma Mae Huggins Endowment at the WVU Cancer Institute and the Remember the Miners organization. The annual Fish Fry was  Feb. 26, via livestream to ensure the health and safety of ...

Handling classes, work during the outbreak of March Madness

After an unplanned year off in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament – colloquially known and branded as March Madness – is back today, much to the excitement of many West Virginia University students. Gina Martino Dahlia, WVU Journalism ...

Another donation for WVU’s Reynolds Hall

WVU Today Reynolds Hall, the future home of West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics, will propel students to the forefront of business education thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from alumni W. Marston “Marty” and Katharine Becker that will ...