An unprecedented two scholars from West Virginia University have received the top fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Katherine Aaslestad and Tamba M’bayo, both professors in the Department of History, will each receive $60,000 for the 2019-2020 academic year to conduct research for their respective book projects.
Research
Post-stroke depression stems from the cardiovascular changes in the brain that lead to a stroke in the first place. It’s a type of depression that scientists are just now starting to probe. At the West Virginia University School of Medicine, a team of researchers is taking a bench-to-bedside look at whether magnetic fields can help treat this unexplored mood disorder.
Bingyun Li at WVU Orthopaedics has been invited to serve as a senior editor of a special research topic on “Antimicrobials and Anticancers of Bacterial Origins.” This special issue will be published on Frontiers in Microbiology, which is a prestigious open access microbiology journal with a high impact factor of 4.019.
The Office of Research and Graduate Education is pleased to announce a competition for fellowships in the T32 pre-doctoral training grant for training in stroke and its related co-morbidities. The principal investigator for this grant is Dr. James W. Simpkins.
Nianqiang (Nick) Wu, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named to Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher list for 2018.
The Females Advancing Clinical and Translational Science group will host the final Fall Facts Series with Erienne Olesh, associate director of the WVU Health Sciences Innovation Center, who will present, “Commercializing Your Research: How to Find Additional Funding Through Industry Partners.”