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The Health Sciences Center is conducting a research study to determine whether CBD impacts driving performance, cognition and sedation among healthy adults by dose or sex using a driving simulator. Your participation could help inform current and future public safety initiatives.

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The Department of Communication Studies is recruiting participants for a study examining how people may be affected by social media. If you are an adult woman age 18 and older, you are eligible to participate in our study.

High School Students Media Camp  

The Teen Conversation Study conducted by Amy Gentzler in the Department of Psychology is seeking teens ages 15-17 to participate.

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School of Public Health professor Ranjita Misra was a guest speaker at the 20th annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities, which brought together more than 400 researchers, clinicians, experts and community leaders from across the country to address health disparities.

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Samantha Thompson, a doctoral student in the biochemistry and molecular medicine program, and assistant professor Michael Robichaux have spent the last three years piloting this project to better understand how inherited genetic mutations that impact retinal synapses can result in blinding diseases like retinitis pigmentosa.

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A new Institutional Review Board module in the WVU Research Administration Portal or WRAP is expected to launch in February, standardizing submission processes, automating workflows and further aligning WVU with best practices for R1 universities.