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The Statler College’s robotic team became the only winner in NASA's Centennial Challenges, taking home first place for the third straight year—and winning $750,000 in the process.

A West Virginia University chemical engineering doctoral student has been selected to attend the P&G FIRST Conference, a three-day, all expenses paid program primarily intended for African American, Hispanic and Native American doctoral and postdoctoral scientists.

On Labor Day evening, a group of 10 West Virginia University students gathered around a pile of pizza boxes and textbooks, recapping their weekends and planning for the week of classes ahead.

Pizza, conversation and textbooks. Pretty ordinary evening in the life of college students, right?

For the third consecutive year, the team from West Virginia University found itself on the podium at the NASA's Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkages or Robo-Ops Competition, held May 24-26, at the Rock Yard at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The Mountaineers finished second behind University of Oklahoma, with University of Utah finishing third.

Four students atWest Virginia Universityhave been awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation that will allow them to continue their studies at the graduate level.

Three West Virginia University engineering students have received prestigious University Fellowships.

Christopher Vass, a mining engineering master’s student at West Virginia University, has received the James and Betty Hall Doctoral Fellowship to continue his education and research.

On any given morning, long before classes begin at West Virginia University, you will find Powsiri Klinkhachorn walking through the halls of the Engineering Sciences Building, carrying a box. Ask him what's inside and his answer is simple: "Robot parts."

The research accomplishments of graduate engineering and science students will be on display Friday, October 9, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., atWest Virginia University's Museum Education Center.

For the teams fromWest Virginia UniversityandUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata's, which is competing for the second straight time in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2015, planning makes perfect.