The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University has selected 26 incoming students to receive the inaugural Incoming Statler Engagement and Leadership (ISEAL) Scholarship.
While at WVU, Foundation scholar Miriam Demasi was drawn to the idea of intersecting technology and humanity. As a computer and electrical engineering major, she was a sister in Alpha Omega Epsilon, a professional sorority for women in engineering and technical sciences.
Andrew Dittmer, a freshman mechanical and aerospace engineering major at West Virginia University, dedicates his free time to giving back to his community while juggling a full-time college course load in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
When Logan Forquer began working in the Innovation Hub in January, he never imagined that he would be a part of a critical effort to supply personal protective equipment to local health care facilities in the state.
A mining engineering doctoral student in the Statler College is investigating separation techniques for the removal of radioactive and hazardous materials from rare earth elements, chemical elements in Earth’s crust that are essential ingredients in modern technologies such as cell phones, rechargeable batteries, GPS equipmentand many defense applications.
Although this year’s Bucklew Scholars will begin their journey atWest Virginia Universityin various disciplines, a deep respect for cultural diversity, a passion for sustainable innovation and a desire to serve others unites the 2020 cohort.
The Innovation Hub, a prototyping center in theBenjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral ResourcesatWest Virginia University, has successfully created surgical mask extenders to be used by health care professionals.
A partnership is forming between the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Sciences and Design, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University and WVU Medicine to determine how the Innovation Hub, a prototyping center in the Statler College, could assist the medical community as they grapple with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.