Jena Martin, a professor at the College of Law, is exploring consumer rights issues with the goal of creating best-practice guidelines for policymakers.
Research
For School of Public Health student Brittany Smith, Italy offers much more than stunning architecture, historic art and delicious cuisine. Last month, it was a place for her to share her passions with a global audience. Traveling to Naples, the undergraduate student attended the 26th annual conference of the International Society for Research on Identity.
Inhaling dangerous particulates is a hazard of coal mining, mold remediation, sandblasting … and dentistry. Fotinos Panagakos, associate dean of research at the West Virginia University School of Dentistry, is collaborating with a team at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study how microscopic, airborne particulates and gases might be generated during dental procedures.
Dr. Ali Rezai, who leads WVU's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, traveled to Toronto last month to speak at Collision, the largest technology conference in North America which attracted more than 25,000 attendees across three days.
Evaluation of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice was not only accepted to and presented at the Association of Operating Room Nurses' Global Surgical Conference and Expo, but also earned the Research Poster first place blue ribbon out of more than 300 posters.
Power plants utilize more than four times as much water as all U.S. homes. Now researchers at WVU are exploring how to cut down on that volume with the aid of a $400,000 federal grant.