The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Ann Chester $270,000 for one year to help high-schoolers forge those “magical relationships” and consider a career in science, technology, engineering or math.
Research
Water is the driving force of all nature, but how do people react when an area begins to run out of water? Martina Angela Caretta, assistant professor of geography, seeks to answer that question in a report she co-authored for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
WVU Medicine has appointed Scott Galster, Ph.D., to lead the human performance research and brain health programs at West Virginia University and WVU Medicine. He will do so at the newly formed West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Galster also will serve as a tenured professor in the Department of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience at the WVU School of Medicine.
Prescription medications, including antidepressants and pain medications, can have various side effects and risks, and a University researcher is examining whether patients understand the risks associated with driving. Robin Pollini, associate director of the School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, led a study on driver awareness of the potential effects of prescription medications.
The next Lunch and Learn sponsored by the HS Innovation Center along with the Women’s Business Center will be held Nov.8 at noon at Evansdale Crossing, Room 412 next to the Launch Lab.
WVU researchers now have access to a fast, reliable and secure centralized storage system through Information Technology Services. Researchers can easily access files in the Research Data Depot from the Spruce Knob HPC cluster and their desktop computers via a network share, Globus Online or SFTP.