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Ken St. Louis

The Man Who Took on Stuttering

Ken St. Louis stuttered as a child. But he conquered the disorder and went on to improve the lives of thousands across West Virginia.

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Atiba Ellis

Election Law 101

Law professor Atiba Ellis explains how voting rights laws surprisingly have something in common with Monty Python.

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Karen Culcasi stands in front of a photo she took of a refugee camp in Jordan.

Learning from Refugees

Hear what researcher Karen Culcasi found when she interviewed women in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

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Flashback - Where Dad Took His Girl

Morgantown restaurant Comuntzis doesn't exist anymore. But the relationships made there are responsible for the founding of many Mountaineer families. Tell us your "meet cute" story in the comments.

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Enslaved man inside a cage in Indonesia.

Slaves No More

She helped to free more than 2,000 enslaved fishermen in Indonesia. Then she and her team won the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. Here’s how Margie Mason did it.

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Marching to the Beat

Dive into the Mountaineer Marching Band’s colorful history, from the inclusion of women to an early rebel band.

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Blair Crisson and her daughter.

Reversing the Drug Trend

Dr. Carl Sullivan has been finding solutions to addiction for decades and developed a comprehensive opiate addiction treatment.

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A political cartoon from the Rush Holt collection sit on a table.

Politics in Cartoons

In this presidential election season, explore this collection of witty and biting cartoons from days gone by.

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Rebecca Graham wears her winged sculpture.

Sculpted Imagination

Check out these wild sculptures from lizard wings to a medieval torture device.

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Judith Hayes

Making Food for Astronauts

After she left WVU, this researcher went on to design the astronaut exercise program still used on the International Space Station.

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Inventing for Lacrosse

If you could invent anything, what would it be? For these guys, it was a lacrosse tool to put in the hands of the growing number of devotees of the sport.

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Finding Time of Death

In between teaching classes, Rachel Mohr takes her trusty backpack to crime scenes where she uses insects to measure time of death.

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Meet STF-1

West Virginia's first satellite is only the size of a bread loaf. But on the inside, it has the potential to improve how we measure the distance between satellites and the Earth.

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A student inserts a syringe into a manikin arm beside a human arm that has an IV inserted.

From Manikin to Man

Meet the "patients" that students practice on before they ever meet a human patient.

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