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Nick Summerlin, a West Virginia University engineering student, has won the 2018 ServiceScape Scholarship with his creative essay on the power of language, even at its most simplistic.

A lateWest Virginia Universityalumnusand World War II veteran has left $2.3 million in his will to the University.

The estate gift from Forrest D.L. Coontz will benefit students in theStatler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, significantly boosting the already established and endowed Forrest Barbara Coontz Scholarship.

Alexandra Davis, a graduate engineering student at West Virginia University, was selected as one of the Industrial Assessment Center’s Student Research Award recipients for 2019. The $25,000 award, presented by the U.S. Department of Energy, is intended for WVU’s Industrial Assessment Center, where Davis serves as student lead.

When researchers first began working on the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, they envisioned a radio telescope that would make precise measurements of the acceleration of the Universe to improve the knowledge of why the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Instead, it has become ideal for detecting fast radio bursts—radio flashes happening from far outside the Milky Way galaxy.

A December graduate of West Virginia University’s safety management program has been awarded a scholarship from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. The BCSP is recognized as the leader in high-quality credentialing for safety, health and environmental practitioners in order to enhance the safety of people, property and the environment.

Claudia Flores-Saviaga, a doctoral candidate at West Virginia University, has won a 2019 Facebook Emerging Scholar Fellowship.