The Office of Graduate Education and Life announces the recipients of the 2018 WVU Foundation Scholarship awards. The scholarship review committee was impressed by the high caliber applications we received and have selected four recipients for the WVU Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship and six recipients for the Carl del Signore Foundation Scholarship for master’s students working towards the completion of a thesis.
Research
Duncan Lorimer has been named the associate dean for research in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. The associate dean for external research development is responsible for leading faculty in research, research program development and intellectual property activities.
Faculty are encouraged to apply to mentor undergraduates in scholarly activity via the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program and to inform their undergraduates that SURE applications are now open (Mar. 1 application deadline).
New research from West Virginia University suggests a widely used index to assess hospital patients’ risk of readmission may have a blind spot. Physicians and nurses use a tool called the “LACE index” to identify which patients are most likely to be readmitted to the hospital because symptoms come back or complications arise. But research out of the Health Sciences Center suggests the index fails to consider a key variables that could improve predictions in West Virginia: whether patients are on Medicaid.
A physics student has created a new machine-learning model that has the potential to make searching for energy and environmental materials more efficient.
The WVU Research Office Initiative for Research Development inaugural workshop is for tenured and tenure-track faculty who are seeking funding for an innovative research project, planning a proposal to the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy or the National Institutes of Health, and also want to hone their grantsmanship skills in crafting a compelling introduction to their projects so reviewers want to read and fund their work.