Vaping has surpassed all other forms of tobacco use in middle- and high-schoolers. New research led by Mark Olfert, an associate professor in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests if teenagers continue to vape into adulthood, the cardiovascular effects may, by some measures, be as dire as if they’d smoked cigarettes.
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A pair of researchers has developed a new model to reliably predict the greenhouse gas fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane in coastal wetlands under rising temperatures and changing environments.
In this one-hour workshop you will learn about your rights as an academic author, and how these rights can change through the course of publishing your work. You will acquire experience scrutinizing author-publisher agreements, and learn how these agreements impact your ability to lawfully share your work online and elsewhere.
The Association for Computing Machinery will host a free workshop on creating an Android App Oct. 18 from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the Advanced Engineering Research Building (AERB) room 120.
The University continues to be part of a multimillion dollar effort across a 10-university alliance to support STEM education for underrepresented students in Appalachia. Funded for a third phase by a five-year, $3.5 million National Science Foundation grant beginning fall 2018, the Kentucky-West Virginia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation will examine underrepresented students’ perceptions of science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and careers and work to improve recruitment, retention and graduation rates of these students.
The FACTS group is pleased to welcome Courtney DeVries, professor and John T. and June R. Chambers Chair of Oncology Research with the School of Medicine and WVU Cancer Institute, to present “Composition of a Compelling Biosketch.” During this presentation, attendees will learn how to build the most effective biosketch possible.