Adults 50 years of age or older who are troubled by memory problems or have been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment are needed for this study
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West Virginia University researcher Steve Davis is piloting an intervention program that uses telehealth to connect rural West Virginians with nurses who can help them manage—and even prevent—conditions like these. The program will focus on individuals being discharged from long-term care facilities as they transition to life back at home.
The University has earned reaccreditation from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, a private, nonprofit organization that promotes the humane treatment of animals in science.
Undergraduate researchers from the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry traveled to the Shack Neighborhood House July 16 to present hands-on science activities to local children attending the Shack’s Summer Festival of Fun.
Researchers at WVU have been awarded a $200,000-National Science Foundation grant to undertake a holistic cross-disciplinary engineering education project to advance the professional formation of engineers to better prepare them for the more complex problems of today and tomorrow.
Nine first-year students are visiting campus right now as part of the First2 STEM Success Network, an INCLUDES Alliance and statewide collaboration supported by the National Science Foundation. The WVU Center for Excellence in STEM Education is one of the five lead organizations in the alliance. The alliance is working to improve the college enrollment and retention rates of first-generation undergraduate STEM students from rural areas. The students are on campus for a two-week research immersion program.