DAVIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES & DESIGN
DIVISION OF FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Wood Science and Technology

David DeVallance, PhD
Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator
(304) 293-0029
Email: david.devallance@wvu.edu


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The Wood Science and Technology program is designed to prepare students for the challenges of a wood products industry career.

Welcome to the Wood Science and Technology Program! The wood products and related industries employ an estimated 10.6 million people nationwide. Yet only 22 American universities provide programs specifically designed to educate professionals to manage and provide technical expertise to the industry. West Virginia University is one of them.



In the Spotlight …

  • Dr. Kaushlendra Singh is one of six higher education faculty in WV to receive mini-grants from the Division of Science and Research, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. These mini-Grants fund summer stipends for faculty members to prepare research grant proposals. Read More>>
  • Dr. Jingxin Wang will lead WVU participation in a US$9.98 million biofuels project that could help lead the way to a renewable energy-based economy by utilizing marginal agricultural land and reclaimed and abandoned mined land to grow energy crops such as perennial grasses and fast-growing woody plants. Read More>>
  • The Appalachian Hardwood Center and Biomaterials and Wood Utilization Research Center will partner with the West Virginia Division of Energy to present a conference on biomass and coal opportunities on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown. Read More>>
  • As an assistant professor in West Virginia University’s wood science and technology program, David DeVallance develops products from wood and various waste materials to produce sustainable materials for building and other uses. Stop by his office, and he’ll show you samples of a composite of wood and textile residue that he, along with colleagues in wood science and WVU’s fashion design and merchandising program, pressed in the program’s laboratory…Read More>>
  • Dr. Kaushlendra Singh, an assistant professor of wood science and technology, is leading a team that is using a $108,900 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study a co-gasification process…
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  • Biorefining Magazine has published a feature story dealing with the work of bioenergy researchers in the West Virginia University Division of Forestry and Natural Resources program in Wood Science and Technology…
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  • The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy has posted a podcast interview with Ben Dawson-Andoh, professor of wood science and technology in the Davis College, on his article…
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