A gathering of innovative startup companies will promote businesses and projects that reduce building energy costs by up to 40 percent while maintaining comfort in every room; convert waste materials to energy and useful products; adapt the Internet of Things concepts for smarter manufacturing and a more dependable electric grid.
Research
West Virginia University has joined forces with two other notable universities to open the door to new resources in international business education and research. The Robbins Center for Global Business and Strategy, which is housed in the WVU College of Business and Economics, is now part of an international regional business consortium with George Washington University, and is included in its Center for International Business Education and Research.
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Clinical Trials Toolkit Series will continue with a session today. In this next entry in this series, Neal Alen, sales director with Protocol Builder at the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, will present “Protocol Builder Information and Training Session.”
At this workshop, you’ll learn everything you need to know to be prepared for a successful poster session, including best practices for poster design, how to effectively engage with attendees and guidelines for creating informative handouts. The Downtown Campus Library will host the session Oct. 25 from 4-5 p.m. in Room 104.
As part of International Open Access Week, Oct. 22-28, WVU Libraries will host an Open Access publishing panel Oct. 22 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room.
Investigators at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute performed the first procedure in the world of a phase II trial using focused ultrasound to treat a patient with early stage Alzheimer’s.