A West Virginia University student has been awarded the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi grant to assist their research in providing computationally efficient, cost-effective and reliable localization solutions for planetary rovers.
The Office of Graduate Education and Life has announced the recipients of the 2021 WVU Foundation Scholarship awards. Scholarship review committee members said they were impressed by the high caliber applications received and have selected four recipients for the WVU Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship and five recipients for the Carl del Signore Foundation Scholarship for master’s students working towards the completion of a thesis. Graduate students provide incredibly valuable research, teaching and services to the WVU campus and the greater Morgantown community. OGEL provides these awards to help these highly qualified students defray the costs of their education and promote the dissemination of their research to a broader audience.
A new engineering research project at West Virginia University has the potential to make a demonstrable impact on the efficiency of electricity generation in the United States, decreasing carbon emissions and lowering costs for consumers.
The robotics team at West Virginia University has set their sights on the moon, launching off a long history of success in robotics competitions and NASA Centennial Challenges.
A new exhibit at West Virginia University’s Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources highlights the role that music played in West Virginia’s logging communities as the timber boom arrived and transformed the region.
In 2012, Kevin Bandura, an assistant professor in the Lane Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University, began working on the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, a telescope project that was designed to map the universe by studying dark energy and observing hydrogen gas in distant galaxies that were strongly affected by it.
Understanding the financial challenges ahead of students today, Keith Harvey, president and CEO of Kaiser Aluminum, and his wife, Cindy Harvey, have donated $50,000 to West Virginia University to establish a scholarship for students interested in pursuing a career in engineering.
One silver lining to COVID-19 restrictions, based on a recent report, is a 2.4 billion-ton plummet in global carbon emissions. Yet worldwide carbon output remains astronomical – 34 billion tons – and experts project an uptick in 2021.