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West Virginia University has received $1 million to develop a new publishing system that will enable and develop mixed-media scholarship materials.

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Connie Park Rice, Ph.D., documents the experiences and histories of women who helped to shape Appalachia. The new book explores the experiences, contributions, realities and the stereotypes that have defined Appalachian women. It also documents the diversity of mountain women, Black and white, urban and rural, rich and poor, Hispanic, Muslim and gay.

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A professor of geography at West Virginia University has co-edited a book exploring the link between gender and global development. The book includes the work of researchers from across the world, provides geographic comparisons of widespread gender inequality that impact power dynamics and social change.

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A professor in the School of Social Work at West Virginia University, has co-edited and co-authored “Aging in Rural Places,” a book of case-studies from experts in the fields of health, social work, nursing, pharmacy, speech pathology and counseling to show how to better provide care to elderly individuals in rural communities.

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West Virginia University will receive a $1.45 million grant from the National Math and Science Initiative to establish the highly regarded UTeach program, a unique teacher-training program for secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers.

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Kirk Hazen, a linguistics professor in the Department of English at West Virginia University, wants everyone to learn how language works. His new book, “An Introduction to Language,” provides readers who have no background in linguistics a tour of English and how language works in their lives.

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Smokeless tobacco products are marketed as a way for smokers to cut back on the negative effects of tobacco, while still being able to use it. Is that really the case? A professor in the Department of Psychology at West Virginia University is investigating whether smokers are using smokeless tobacco products as a replacement, or supplement to cigarettes.

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Planned wind turbine farms in California --- intended to create new, renewable energy resources --- are endangering the lives of rare birds of prey populations. A geography professor at West Virginia University is monitoring the birds' flight patterns to protect them and preserve the efforts to harvest wind energy.

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Earl Scime, Oleg D. Jefimenko Professor of Physics and interim vice president of research at West Virginia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to better understand the effects of space weather.

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For a number of students entering college"”or returning to school in the fall"”staying healthy and fit can be a challenge. But West Virginia University is making it easy for students to develop and maintain healthy lifestyles during that initial back-to-school period and beyond through its Wellness and Nutrition Initiative.

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West Virginia University's Adventure WV, an orientation program that combines outdoor activities with fireside discussions about college life and community service opportunities, has captured a 2007 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Award.

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A West Virginia University professor is helping to develop techniques to reduce the threat against honeybees.

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A West Virginia University professor who examined 21 years of NASCAR accident reports and made a comparison to introductions of safety requirements, has concluded that more safety regulations in the popular sport has led to an increase in accidents.

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Michael S. "Mike" Garrison, managing member of the Morgantown law office of Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC, will become the president-elect of West Virginia University, effective July 1, and the 22nd president of WVU on Sept. 21, 2007.

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The West Virginia Law Review and the West Virginia University College of Law are presenting a lecture series, "Thinking Outside of the Box: A Post-Sago Look at Coal Mine Safety," at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at the College of Law.

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The West Virginia and Regional History Collection at West Virginia University Libraries recently received some unique memorabilia from a famous alumnus "“ the late actor and Morgantown native Don Knotts.

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A panel discussion on the history and future of the penny will be held Thursday, March 1, as part of the continuing West Virginia University Festival of Ideas lecture series.

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Yew Choong Cheong, a West Virginia University student who plays and studies classical piano despite a loss of hearing, recently won the 2007 International Young Soloists Award given by VSA arts.

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Questions about church and state are hardly easy to answer, and they affect us all, whether we realize it or not. West Virginia University's College of Law is hosting a symposium this spring to help give insight to these questions.

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Win or lose, football games always end with their share of questions "“ no matter if it's playing touch in the backyard at the family reunion or teeing it up in the 2007 Toyota Gator Bowl, as West Virginia University and Georgia Tech are doing Jan. 1 in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Imagine taking a first-time business trip to Shanghai and quickly finding your way as though you'd lived there for years. Further imagine conveniently seeing directions at the same time you're navigating the streets or instantly locating friends and family anywhere in the world, from the largest cities to the most rural countryside.

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West Virginia University's Forensic Science Initiative is teaming with WVU's Bureau of Business and Economic Research and College of Business and Economics to launch an efficiency probe of the crime scene investigation industry.

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West Virginia University alumna and former Morgantown resident Sarah Culberson will share her unique, personal journey about discovering she is an African princess at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Metropolitan Theatre.

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A West Virginia University professor and two alumni have tracked the chromosomal abnormalities associated with a tumor that develops in the eye and often leads to blindness and death.

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Three school shootings across the country in less than a week have put parents on edge and officials on alert as America again grapples with classroom tragedies. West Virginia University has two experts available who can discuss the situation, from public safety aspects to the psychology of those who wield guns in anger.

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Stephen DiFazio, assistant professor of biology in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, has co-authored a milestone study in genome research that points to trees as the new biofuel.

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Three years ago, two West Virginia University physicists were were part of an international team in England that discovered a unique double pulsar some 2,000 light-years away from Earth. They've been tracking it ever since, and their first research findings are being published online today (Thursday, Sept. 14) in the journal Science.

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Lauren Black could hardly contain her excitement as she moved her belongings into Lincoln Hall over the weekend. Black "“ one of over 300 students who will embark on an exciting new residential college experience at West Virginia University this month "“ plans to major in geology so she can study and conduct research on such phenomenon as volcanic activity.

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In years past, West Virginia University graduate April Shea would have been a definite exception to the rule: a woman working in forensic science. Today, she is the rule. And the microbiologist with Washington, D.C.'s Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is part of a sleuthing trend that's reflected nationally and especially here at her alma mater.

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As the political debate over illegal immigration continues, a West Virginia University political scientist has co-authored a study showing one effect of the rising Latino populations in the United States "“ increased stereotypes.

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A West Virginia University professor will be able to further evaluate hornfaced bees (Osmia cornifrons) for blueberry pollination thanks to a research and education grant from the Northeast Region Sustainable Agricultural Research and Education (NESARE) Program.

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Forget about dorm doldrums at other colleges and universities. West Virginia University's innovative residential college is about to take the student life experience to a whole new level.

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A sellout Coliseum crowd watched on Nov. 26, 2005, as West Virginia University officials retired the No. 44 jersey of one of the most famous athletes to ever wear the Gold and Blue "“ Jerry West. West will return to the Coliseum May 14 to another capacity crowd as the guest speaker at the University's 137th Commencement.

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The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) at West Virginia University will once again sponsor the National Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) Day Odyssey this fall at numerous locations across the United States.

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A West Virginia University researcher has co-authored a book on multibiometrics, a rapidly emerging area of research that may help protect Americans from real and present dangers such as identity theft and international terrorism.

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West Virginia University's Department of Philosophy is using a unique concept to get young people thinking.

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Reporters from CNN, CBS, USA Today, the New York Daily News and The Charleston Gazette will examine media coverage of the Sago Mine disaster at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at West Virginia University's Mountainlair Ballrooms.

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Faculty at the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics have spent the past 24 months preparing draft guidelines for how forensic accounting and fraud investigation should be taught at colleges and universities.

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West Virginia University Journalism students and faculty today (Dec. 1) launched an interactive, multimedia website devoted to documenting the stories of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who sought refuge at Preston County's Camp Dawson and are now living in West Virginia.

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Researchers at West Virginia University have developed a patent-pending technology to turn processing waste into additional revenue for fish producers.

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West Virginia University and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are using cutting-edge technology to gain a better understanding of the state's black bear population.

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What do you do with computers, cell phones, printers, laptops, televisions and other electronic devices when they die? West Virginia University will host an international conference Nov. 28-30 at the Radisson Hotel to address the question.

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West Virginia's African American History Project will tell the stories of the state's black World War II veterans and their struggles with a segregated military and a country that did not value their contributions to the war effort.

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A group of animal scientists in West Virginia University's Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences is looking at pentosidine as an indicator of just how long it has been since a bird hatched.

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Fitness Information Technology, a division of the International Center for Performance Excellence at West Virginia University, has released "You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices."