West Virginia University has earned national recognition through the work of Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources’ graduate student Noah C. Parsons, whose advanced aerospace engineering research has garnered international attention.
The CBS show, “The Visioneers with Zay Harding,” visited the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources to learn about the StickBug robot pollinator from Yu Gu, Madhav Rijal and Trevor Smith.
Glen H. Hiner Dean, Pedro Mago, announced the creation of three new Teaching Faculty Fellowships at the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, marking the first time fellowships of this kind have been established in the college’s history.
Emily Garner, associate professor in the Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at West Virginia University, has been awarded the Jack H. Samples Professorship in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University continues to demonstrate its longstanding commitment to research, reporting $54.5 million in total research expenditures for the 2024 fiscal year. As a result, engineering programs remained ranked among the top 100 nationwide in the latest National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey.
Starting this summer, undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the U.S. will converge on West Virginia University for the chance to contribute directly to developing new “biosensing” technologies, which gather data from the body and use that information to improve wellness or detect and treat disease.
In a collaborative effort, West Virginia University colleges, departments and units are coming together to form WVU Cyber — a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary initiative that unites different types of cyber-related research and study across the WVU System to tackle security, economic and workforce challenges.
West Virginia University is recruiting undergraduate students from across the United States to join a summer research immersion experience that explores topics of road infrastructure through the use of “digital twin” technologies. The students will learn to use virtual models to mirror real-world streets and highways in their future careers as the civil engineers building America’s roads.
West Virginia University research is shining a light on the mysterious world of dark energy.