Social media can be much more than political rants and snapshots of scrumptious meals or furry friends. Professor Xin Li and Post-doctoral Fellow Chuanbo Hu in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have found that social networking platforms can serve as a direct-to-consumer marketing tool for drug dealers to sell illicit drugs.

After eight months of developing designs, building crucial components, and spending hundreds of hours testing their Mars rover, the WVU Mountaineer Robotics team was selected to advance to the final round of the University Rover Challenge 2022.

At the beginning of 2022 Amazon announced it would send Alexa to space as part of Artemis I, the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human exploration of the Moon and Mars. As a collaboration between Amazon, Lockheed Martin and Cisco, many engineers are integrating Alexa into deep space missions, including a Statler College alumnus. 

Pedro Mago, Glen H. Hiner dean of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, announced the winners of the College’s outstanding teaching, advising, research and staff awards for the 2021-2022 academic year on April 1, 2022. 

A Statler College engineer is collaborating with an international team of engineers, surgeons, and medical researchers to study a new hearing treatment to restore more natural hearing for individuals who are deaf or severely hard-of hearing.

Dear friends and colleagues,

In April, the WVU community came together to celebrate faculty and students who pursue ground-breaking research in all disciplines during its Fourth Annual Research Week. The Statler College celebrated Research Week with a research open house, a distinguished seminar by Statler College Visiting Committee Member Kirk Gerdes, a leader in the field of solid oxide fuel cells and associate director of research and innovation at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, laboratory tours, and a Graduate Student Symposium and Undergraduate Poster Session. We take great pride in our researchers at the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources! I encourage you to visit our social media pages that highlight our researchers, and please take a moment to read the stories above that showcase our excellence in engineering and computer science. I’d like to add that spring commencement is approaching quickly, and I hope you join us as we say goodbye to the Class of 2022 and welcome a new generation of alumni.

Sincerely,

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