Morgantown Airbnb Hosts Earned Record $21,000 During WVU Commencement

Airbnb, the world’s leading community-driven hospitality company, announced today that Morgantown hosts earned over $21,000 in income while welcoming an additional 230 guests to the city last weekend during the West Virginia University commencement (May 10-13). This represented the third largest surge of guests to Morgantown in the history of Airbnb’s platform, behind only a couple football weekends from…

WVU expert briefs Congressional committee on extracting rare earth elements from coal

Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the Water Research Institute at West Virginia University’s Energy Institute, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Tuesday, May 14, on recent research advances on the development of a domestic source of rare earth elements. RREs, the minerals that make electronic devices work, are essential to the economy and national security. …