WVU researchers have found that babies exposed to Suboxone in utero fared as well as, or better than, babies exposed to more conventional addiction treatments, such as treatment with methadone or Subutex.
Research
Research conducted by Saiph Savage, the J. Wayne and Kathy Richards Faculty Fellow in Engineering, received honorable mention for best paper at the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
The WVU student organization, the Mountaineer Musicological Community, is organizing a university-wide symposium for humanities students on Sept. 15 in an attempt to showcase the strength of humanities research here and to foster communication and future collaboration among humanities students across schools and departments at WVU.
Andrew Dacks, assistant professor of neuroscience in the Department of Biology , received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research at West Virginia University on the effects of serotonin in fruit flies. Dacks and his team of researchers will study how serotonin affects different cells in the olfactory system of fruit flies and how those systems could apply to other systems as well.
Victor Finomore, director of Human Performance and Applied Neuroscience at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and his previous team at the U.S. Air Force Academy received the 2018 Parasuraman Award for Scientific Impact at the second International Neuroergonomics Conference at Drexel University in June for their preliminary work on human-machine teaming and trust in automation.
The Health Sciences Library will offer a Mendeley workshop in the HSC Learning Center (LC 2) Aug. 7 from noon to 1 p.m.