What’s In Your Cellar? W.Va. Chefs Launch New Dinner Series
A group of West Virginia chefs is launching a 10-dinner series they call “Cellar to Table” at state parks throughout the state.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia’s Green Bank Telescope is one half of an international team searching for intelligent life in the universe.
The partnership was announced this week by an entrepreneur and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. The 10-year, $100 million initiative will use the Pocahontas County telescope and the Parkes Telescope in Australia — the two most powerful telescopes in the world.
Scientists will gather data from the 1 million stars closest to Earth. The powerful telescopes will even probe beyond the Milky Way to listen for signs from the closest 100 galaxies.
Earl Scime is chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at West VirginiaUniversity. He says there are few places in the world where this type of research can be conducted.
WVU has a close relationship with Green Bank.