WVU grad one of first plasma donors in U.S. to save COVID-19 patients
Months ago, a woman did something that in easier times would not have been unusual. She gave blood. And then it changed everything.
2020 pandemic in Morgantown closely resembles 1918 pandemic in Morgantown
In the fall of 1918, Morgantown canceled events and school was closed because of a dangerous illness circling the globe.
AMA President, WVU Alumna Urges Americans to Stay Home
As the new coronavirus spreads the COVID-19 disease across the world, West Virginia University Magazine spoke with alumna Dr. Patrice Harris, current president of the American Medical Association, about the advice her association is giving the medical community and the rest of us at home.
Fighting the Itch
A researcher is investigating the use of an anti-itch cream as a substitute pain reliever.
Big Green Data
Botanicals have been used throughout history in human culture from spirituality to health.
No Place Like Home: Testing Out Telehealth
How do patients who need consistent care in rural areas get the treatment they need? Now, they’re going online.
The Physics of Baseball
As you root, root, root for the home team, take a look at how America’s pastime actually works.
The Supplement Debunker
Are all those supplements you take every day helping you? This researcher has answers.
Swipe Right: The Fine Art of Getting — and Keeping — a Date Online
Everyone is dating online. But how do you make those dates a success? Liesel Sharabi has studied this for a decade.
Unmasking the Enterprise of Death
What started as a phone call from a reporter in West Virginia turned into a years-long legal investigation tracing opioid pills across the country.
Life Reclamation
Gerod Buckhalter had tried everything to get sober. Then he was offered another chance with a brain surgery.
A Celestial Heavyweight
Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer look for a kind of star called a pulsar. Here's how they found the most massive pulsar recorded so far.
Blind Ambition
Jim Kutsch lost his sight from a fireworks explosion when he was a teenager. He still became an engineer and created a reading technology for blind people.
The Fashion Designer
Colleen Moretz started in fashion by making clothes for her Barbie dolls. Now she’s working with industry to create a standard for clothing sustainability.
Episode 11 - How We Talk
On the cusp of high school, four girls in a rural middle school talk with researchers about why they talk they way they do and how hard they’ve tried to change themselves to be accepted by their peers.
A Thousand Miles of Snow
John Logar, MD '01, rode his titanium bicycle from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, in single-digit weather, through wet and treacherous snow. He was competing in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, the bicycle version of the famous dog-sled race.