Breastfeeding may “rewire” babies’ brains in ways that help them acquire language and eventually learn to read, according to a new study from the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
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The College of Creative Arts has selected the winners of the College’s annual Faculty/Student Mentored Research Awards.
Deniz Talan, a native of Ankara, Turkey, has been awarded the West Virginia University Outstanding Merit for Continuing Doctoral Students Fellowship, to continue her studies. The fellowship recognizes doctoral students who are succeeding at high levels, including current grades, research, service to the WVU community and professional publications.
Anticipating and meeting patients’ needs can take an emotional toll on nurses, even without COVID-19 as an added stressor. A new study led by Marian Reven, a PhD student in the School of Nursing and a registered nurse with WVU Medicine, suggests aromatherapy may reduce nurses’ feelings of stress, anxiety and fatigue on the job.
With the COVID-19 pandemic upending life as we know it, researchers in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences are taking quick action to study how people from Appalachia to Europe are responding to the pressure this crisis has placed on their communities.
The WVU Humanities Center is accepting proposals for an immediate grant competition, funded by a WVU endowment from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. The purpose of this competition is to fund humanities-centered projects that respond to the emerging COVID-19 global pandemic.