An effort to expand a multi-use rail-to-trail network throughout the Industrial Heartland is drawing on the expertise and work of faculty at the West Virginia University Health Research Center.
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The Women in Science and Health in conjunction with FACTS will be holding an event on April 25. The presenter will be the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Jeannette E. South-Paul.
West Virginia University’s inaugural Research Week celebration will include a visit from representatives from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. They will be on campus April 2 to offer programming focused on two of the organization’s recent reports: Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century and The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education.
This month’s EIC Lunch and learn will offer SBIR/STTR grant program information, including what it is, how to apply and how the Innovation Center can support applicants. The EIC Lunch and Learn takes place March 19 from noon to 1 p.m. in Evansdale Crossing Lab Room 413.
John Campo, chief behavioral wellness officer at WVU and the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and his colleagues are working to fill a gap in analyzed suicide trends among 10- to-18-year-olds. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among this group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but no studies to date addressed a large subset of the population: Medicaid recipients.
West Virginia University researchers are exploring new ways to promote their work at the intersection of art and science. Mina Aziziha, a physics Ph.D. student, was a finalist in the 2019 Intermag-Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference's Magnetism as Art contest in Washington, D.C.