When their family members struggle with substance use disorders, children bring experiences of neglect, trauma and often, mental health issues into the classroom, creating challenging environments for their teachers. Researchers at West Virginia University have evaluated the impact of the opioid crisis in classrooms across the Mountain State through a survey of 2,205 teachers in 49 counties.
Research
The Research Repository is WVU's open access institutional repository and online home for the scholarship, creative work, and research of WVU faculty, students, and researchers. In this Research Commons workshop, you will learn how you can use the repository to archive your work, share your posters and presentations, publish digital projects, and make your articles open access without any publication charges.
WVCTSI’s Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series will host a session focusing on successful strategies for community-based research Friday (March 15). Sally Hurst, director of outreach programs, and Drema Mace, executive director, both with the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine’s Center for Rural and Community Health, will present “Best Strategies and Models for Community-Based Participatory Research.”
The Office of the Provost and the Research Office remind the campus community—faculty, staff and students—to mark their calendars for a variety of events taking place on campus April 1-5 to celebrate the high volume and caliber of West Virginia University research.
A recent study by Allison Brichacek and Candice Brown, researchers in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests that stroke patients’ microbiomes—and even the structure of their guts—may still be out of kilter a month after the stroke has passed.
WVCTSI has released requests for applications for the Collaborative RFA, Small Grant RFA, and Launch Pilot Grant funding opportunities.