Aging in Appalachia doesn’t need to be what it’s perceived to be: Long commute times for quality healthcare and high rates of diabetes, depression and every other disease under the sun. Now a WVU program hopes to flip that script by preparing undergraduate students for careers aimed at solving aging and health disparity problems in Appalachia.
Research
PHASMA – or the PHAse Space MApping experiment as it’s officially dubbed – is the focus of the WVU Center for Kinetic Experiment, Theory and Integrated Computation Physics, which recently received $2.25 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding.
The Oct. 13 session of the OTT Lunch & Learn series will highlight new developments in microbiomics and how this field of study affects everything from health and environmental research to clean energy and national security.
For more than 25 years, Jennifer Hause has used her skills as an engineer to serve the people of West Virginia by improving water quality and water infrastructure in rural communities, and now she joins an elite group of Appalachian visionaries working to improve the region’s community development and economic competitiveness.
The Libraries’ Research Skills workshops will help you learn research tips and tricks to succeed in academics. Prep for your next research assignment, find resources for a literature review, situate yourself in previous literature and learn where to find key resources by attending one or more of these workshops.
Candice Brown, a researcher with the WVU School of Medicine and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and her colleagues are exploring how a specific enzyme protects the brain from the effects of stroke and aging. The National Institute on Aging—a division of the National Institutes of Health—is awarding WVU $2,687,415 for the five-year project.