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WVU engineers, designers partner to test materials for surgical masks

When the director of West Virginia University’s Innovation Hub heard about a massive mask making effort underway next door at the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resource and Design, he knew engineers in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Natural Resources could help.

Worker shortage more likely than food shortage amid coronavirus pandemic

Ednilson Bernardes, chair of the Global Supply Chain Management program within West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics, says companies like Smithfield and Tyson Foods closing their meat-producing plants is unlikely to lead to a food shortage. Instead, he says, the bigger threat is a shortage in the workforce.

WVU Extension Service expert offers tips for a safe, healthy farmers market season

As farmers markets across West Virginia open for the season, West Virginia University Extension Service Agribusiness Economics Specialist Dee Singh-Knights provides a few recommendations to help market managers and vendors safely sell their products to customers and allow communities to continue supporting local farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmers markets and other agricultural businesses around the state are able to remain open under the governor’s current stay-at-home order to help provide fresh, local foods to our residents, but not without taking the proper precautions to keep customers and farmers safe.

Tests of Towers residents, workers return only one positive COVID-19 result

Tests of more than 100 residents and workers associated with West Virginia University’s Evansdale Residential Complex have been completed, with only one additional resident testing positive for COVID-19. The tests were administered after the University was informed Sunday that a resident had tested positive.

A century apart, pandemics have parallels in WVU’s response

History has a way of reminding us that we are not the first generation to experience either hardship or the spread of disease. John Cuthbert, curator and director of the West Virginia Regional History Center and Special Collections at West Virginia University Libraries, said the parallels between WVU’s response to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and COVID-19 are as interesting as they are telling.