Join us for a Tuesday (April 23) Lunch and Learn at the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design where Randy Quinn, Associate Director, Evansdale Innovation Center, will present on the NSF I-Corps program—an entrepreneurial bootcamp-style program introduced at WVU to help researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs “learn to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research, and gain skills in entrepreneurship through training in customer discovery and guidance from established entrepreneurs.”
Research
A research team from West Virginia University has been approved for a grant from a NASA fund designed to determine the feasibility of early stage technologies that could go on to change what’s possible in space.
Pragya Rai from the School of Pharmacy, along with Gihan Uthpala Panapitiya and Katelyn Romm, both from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, took home top honors at the Three-Minute Thesis Competition during the University's inaugural Research Week Celebration.
The WVU Schools of Dentistry and Public Health collaborated on the study.
A new two-photon imaging facility at West Virginia University is expanding opportunities for neuroscience research in the Department of Biology and beyond.
Harrison “Henry” Loh, a doctoral student conducting research in materials science and engineering at West Virginia University, is the recipient of a 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The award will allow the Wheeling native to expand his research in the area of flexible technologies and devices.