Researchers throughout the region who must use certified laboratories for sample analyses now may bring their samples to the Analytical Laboratory of the West Virginia University Energy Institute/National Research Center for Coal and Energy on the Evansdale campus. Gabriela Perhinschi, the lab’s manager, announced today that the lab passed the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection certification process for analyses of non-potable-water inorganic nonmetals and trace metals.
Research
After having their tonsils removed, patients often can’t leave the hospital for six hours, even if they bounce back from surgery sooner. Hospital policy commonly mandates a six-hour recovery time. But research led by Habib Zalzal, a resident in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests that not all tonsillectomy patients have to wait that long.
Traci LeMasters, assistant professor in the School of Pharmacy, is a recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s New Investigator Award, which grants funding to early-career faculty to jumpstart independent research programs. She is one of only 16 people nationwide to receive the award this year.
Forty students from WVU and WVU Tech will showcase their research today (Feb. 16) in the Capitol Rotunda in Charleston. The WVU Office of Undergraduate Research coordinates the event, which involves students from colleges and universities from around West Virginia.
Phat Huynh, Fulbright Scholar and MPH candidate in the School of Public Health, will have his research featured at the 2018 Fulbright Global Health Innovations Seminar in Atlanta, Georgia, later this month.
The WVU Humanities Center is pleased to announce its internal grants programs for summer 2018 and 2018-2019. Three programs are currently open for applications: Summer 2018 research grants, interdisciplinary team grants, and the 2018-2019 Humanities Center Fellows program.