The Health Sciences Innovation Center will host its second Lunch and Learn of the semester titled: “Working with corporate collaborators; confidentiality, intellectual property and protecting your rights.”
Research
An interdisciplinary team of is investigating how children’s health and education outcomes can be improved through school-based health centers. To address these challenges, Simon Haeder, an assistant professor of political science, and Sara Anderson, an assistant professor of child development and family studies, have been selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program.
Antar Jutla, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at West Virginia University, will partner with researchers at the University of Maryland, led by Professor of Microbiology Anwar Huq, to look at ways in which the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme weather events are likely to affect the ecology of pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in the Chesapeake Bay, which is already experiencing twice the global average rate of sea-level rise.
John Deskins, economist and director of WVU’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, called West Virginia “a picture of an uneven economic recovery” at the statewide Economic Outlook Conference in Charleston today (Oct.3). The annual economic forecast event takes a look at the West Virginia economy for the next five years, incorporating data and trends into its outlook.
The Females Advancing Clinical and Translational Science group will host the next entry in the Fall Facts Series Oct. 8.
Improving shale energy productivity and reducing the environmental footprint of the natural gas industry are the goals of a West Virginia University partnership at a second Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Lab to be located in western Monongalia County.