From experimenting with robots that off-road autonomously down country roads, to designing drones that can fly through Appalachia’s dense forest canopies, students who join the WVU Undergraduate Research Experience this summer will do hands-on, real-world work aimed at solving the problems of remote mountain communities.
Research
University neuroscientists are looking into why people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease can remember events from decades ago but cannot recall something that happened in the past few hours. Their ongoing study indicates the issue could have to do with the vulnerability of certain synaptic connections, the places where neurons meet to communicate.
Judges are still needed, especially in the social sciences, for the eighth annual Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium to be held from 1-5 p.m. Saturday (April 20) in the Mountainlair.
Emily Sechrest, a postdoctoral fellow in the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, was awarded $90,000 from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation to fund one year of research into potential treatments for a disease known as blue color monochromacy.
University researchers are looking for healthy adults with physically active jobs to participate in a research study which is seeking to understand the effects of physical activity at work on cardiovascular health.
Fourth-year medical student Stephen Chen recently partnered with Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences professor Dr. John Nguyen to investigate the effects of teprotumumab on intraocular pressure among thyroid eye disease patients.