Alexandra Davis, a graduate engineering student, was selected as one of the Industrial Assessment Center’s Student Research Award recipients for 2019. The $25,000 award, presented by the U.S. Department of Energy, is intended for WVU’s Industrial Assessment Center, where Davis serves as student lead.
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WVCTSI will host an information session to provide K Program details and writing group application/participation overview. This information session will take place today, (Jan. 29) from noon to 1 p.m. in room G150 of the WVU Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Building.
Krista Bresock, a mathematics instructor and Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics, researches student learning of integral calculus and is a teaching instructor, serving as the lead instructor of MATH 156, Calculus 2.
The purpose of this award is to honor and encourage the considerable efforts and accomplishments of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to the mentorship of graduate students.
WVU researchers awarded $1 million to develop AI technologies to combat opioid epidemic, trafficking
Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at West Virginia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice in support of her work to develop novel artificial intelligence techniques to combat the opioid epidemic and trafficking. The award comes with about $1 million in funding over a three-year period.
Guided by WVU trainers, the second cohort of the I-Corps training will help participants identify opportunities that can evolve from academic research, gain business skills, test business models and test hypotheses about customers in the real world to ensure products have a strong market demand prior to commercialization. The second cohort of the I-Corps training will take place Feb. 22 through March 9. The deadline to apply is Feb. 8.