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The WVU Tech STEM Summer Academy for Girls will be hosted on the Beckley campus July 9-14 thanks in part to funding provided by Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia. 

Most days Jennifer Merkle is a 14-year-old student from Princeton, West Virginia who likes to read books about crime and forensic science. But for two days in June, she was a real-life forensic investigator, examining fingerprint evidence, interpreting bloodstain patterns, casting footwear impressions and investigating the scenes of heinous crimes to figure out how the deeds were done – and who might have done them.

In WVU Tech’s Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center there’s a near-constant buzz of whirring motors and clicking keyboards. It’s punctuated by bouts of laughter and the exclamation that the little machine zigged when it should have zagged. It’s the sound of Camp STEM’s popular robotics class. It’s also the sound of high school students learning that a fascination with STEM can be a very good thing.

The wellbeing of West Virginia’s young people is the key to the state’s future. That’s the philosophy of Dr. Larry Rhodes, a pediatric cardiologist who has been helping children with congenital heart disease at the WVU School of Medicine in Morgantown for the last 13 years.

West Virginia University Institute of Technology and FlightSafety International will launch the first class of their joint Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management degree program in August 2017.

WVU Tech’s Upward Bound program was recently awarded a five-year grant for nearly $2 million to continue helping high school students in Southern West Virginia.

Summer’s here, and this week is the start of WVU Tech’s summer camp season. Middle and high school students from throughout the state will gather on the Beckley campus in June and July for three summer programs to study forensic investigation and STEM fields.

Some may have noticed an increase in noise and activity near the WVU Tech HiRise residence hall on the Montgomery campus recently as preparations are made for demolition of the building.

As part of the lease-purchase agreement with KVC Health Systems, WVU has hired Dore & Associates through the state bidding process to raze and remove the structure. The tentative date for demolition of HiRise is Sunday, June 4, but preparations for the removal have already begun.

On Saturday, May 6, more 180 graduates gathered in the Neal D. Baisi Athletic Center gymnasium in Montgomery for the last WVU Tech commencement ceremony on the more than 100-year-old campus.

WVU Tech’s faculty members are dedicated to the advancement of the fields they teach. Outside of the classroom they’re researchers, writers, presenters, go-to experts and road warriors who share their passion for learning with the world.

Here’s what our faculty members have been up to: