West Virginia University researchers are taking an innovative approach to develop a more sustainable and economical pest control solution.
Research
A University researcher is uncovering how firearm evidence and latent fingerprint evidence helps solve crimes by finding the “perfect match.”
Public health researchers from West Virginia University and the University of California, Berkeley have created an innovative, evidence-based guide for instructors and administrators in post-secondary Career Technical Education construction programs. The new guide, “Your Construction Safety Program: Safe Students, Safe Workers,” outlines key elements of safety and health education in construction programs.
Dr. Habib Zalzal, PGY3 Otolaryngology, was first prize winner of the G. Slaughter Fitz-Hugh MD resident research award at the prestigious American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society in Scottsdale, Arizona. Title of his presentation was “Using Clinical Indicators to Reduce Peri-Anesthesia Recovery Time Following Outpatient Tonsillectomy.”
Between 2010 and 2015, the combined overdose deaths from cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential—a drug category that includes methamphetamine, Adderall and Ritalin—equaled the number of overdose deaths from heroin. Doctoral candidate Joshua Gross is investigating how a particular protein influences the brain’s response to such drugs. Gross is conducting his research in collaboration with his two mentors: David Siderovski, Chair of WVU’s Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience Department, and Vincent Setola, Director of WVU’s Laboratory of Neuroscience and Genetics of Substance Abuse.
Although breast cancer mortality has declined in the U.S., it is still the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women under 60 years old. Two WVU researchers are investigating a mechanism that affects the interaction between cells and the microenvironment surrounding them.