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MEDIA ADVISORY: WVU Department of Mining and Industrial Extension to host national mine rescue competition
The Department of Mining and Industrial Extension at West Virginia University will host several teams of students from WVU, Virginia Tech, Penn State University and the University of Kentucky, in the 2019 Fall Eastern Collegiate National Mine Rescue Contest.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Statler College to host 32nd annual Pumpkin Drop
For the past 32 years, crowds of elementary, middle and high school students accompanied by friends, teachers and guardians have gathered around the 11-story Engineering Sciences Building to watch hundreds of pumpkins, each weighing about 60 pounds, fall from its roof, hopefully not to their doom.
A saving grace underground: WVU engineers utilize robots to improve mine safety
Injuries and deaths caused by roof collapses and falling debris, common culprits for underground mine accidents, could be prevented by the unlikely force of robots and drones, thanks to the work of West Virginia University engineers.
WVU researchers tackle rising health care costs with artificial intelligence
Researchers at West Virginia University are using artificial intelligence to counter soaring costs of health care and deliver more efficient and accurate diagnoses of cardiovascular diseases.
WVU awarded $5 million to continue rare earth project, build acid mine drainage treatment facility
TheWest Virginia Water Research InstituteatWest Virginia Universityhas been awarded $5 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to scale up its successful Rare Earth Recovery Project, which will include building a facility at a new acid mine drainage treatment plant near Mount Storm.
There’s no beauty premium in college football: Aggressive features = higher pay for coaches, say WVU researchers
Football was never intended to be a beauty pageant, and this study byWest Virginia University researchers backs it up.