Seeking to build off its second-place finish in the final year of the EcoCAR 3 competition, the team from West Virginia University was one of 12 to be selected for the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, which will feature the 2019 Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform.
Research
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Breakthrough Device designation to DISCERN, a biomarker test for Alzheimer’s. The test was developed using blood and tissue samples that were monitored and evaluated by WVU’s Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is the scholarly inquiry into student learning to advance the practice of teaching. SoTL uses evidence-based methods to conduct this inquiry. In this workshop, titled “SoTL Overview: Effective Research on Teaching and Learning,” you will learn about effective strategies for conducting research on teaching and learning, particularly in your own courses, and about the steps to move from research idea to project.
Researchers, principal investigators and grant writers and business center personnel can meet small, diverse and local business owners at this vendor fair Nov. 15 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the MountainLair Ballroom.
Not ‘just for kids’: WVU communication studies professor researches the interactivity of video games
Video games and interactive media like the Fallout series and Fortnite, which is currently one of the nation’s most popular games, have interested Nick Bowman, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies and a research associate of WVU’s Interaction Lab, for years. Growing up around interactive media such as video games, Bowman has been researching how people experience and interact with video games and other virtual environments.
Just as no two snowflakes are alike, a new study by Kristyn Lizbinski, a doctoral student studying biology, reveals that neurons may be just as diverse.