A new study from West Virginia University researcher Eric E. Kelley—in collaboration with the University of Minnesota—suggests that unrepaired DNA damage can increase the speed of aging. The study appears in the journal Nature.
Research
WVU Libraries has signed a transformative Read & Publish agreement with a major publisher of academic journals. The agreements offer the opportunity to facilitate an institution’s transition to open access by repurposing money that would have been spent on traditional journal subscriptions to open access publishing.
Several Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences residents and fellows will present their research projects during grand rounds on Wednesday (June 30) at 7 a.m. over Zoom.
Emmanuel Fonseca, assistant professor at WVU and the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, was on the CHIME research team who announced earlier this month that they had quadrupled the number of FRBs currently cataloged.
WVU researchers are part of a team recently awarded $17 million from the National Science Foundation for the renewal of the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center. Maura McLaughlin and Sarah Burke-Spolaor, faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will direct WVU’s $3.9 million share of the award.
The Appalachian Gerontology Experiences: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research Scholars Program invites all to attend its first AGE-ADAR Summer Research Program Virtual Poster Symposium from 10-11 a.m. on June 25.