Just as nerve cells don’t work in isolation when we think, speak or move, neuroscientists don’t work alone when they study the nervous system. WVU is launching the Center for Foundational Neuroscience Research and Education, which will help researchers from across the university collaborate on—and get funding for—neuroscience research. Randy Nelson, who chairs the Department of Neuroscience, will direct it.
Research
Michael Gutensohn, assistant professor horticulture in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, will be studying what environmental factors lead to an accumulation of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in the plant.
A WVU physicist has created an exact mathematical formula to explain the gravitational wave signals that have been observed from colliding black holes, which serve as a key validation of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
The WV-INBRE program will provide funding for HSTA scholars attending WVU and Marshall University to participate in biomedical science research. A maximum of six internships will be available - three for WVU and three for MU.
The staggering amount of space debris poses a difficult challenge for safely operating spacecrafts in lower Earth orbit without collision. To meet this challenge, a WVU engineer, Piyush Mehta, is working to improve the accuracy of predicting drag on objects in lower Earth orbit.
If you need a visual cue to don a face covering, a team of WVU researchers simulated COVID-19 droplets spraying between two mannequin heads in various states – masked and unmasked.