The four 2016-2017 Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholars will present highlights of their award-winning research in individual lectures this fall, beginning this week. The series begins with Aldo Romero who will speak on “From Life, Chemistry to Materials, All Use the Same Glue: Quantum Mechanics” Wednesday (Sept. 27) at 4 p.m. in the Milano Room of the WVU Downtown Library.
Research
Mark Nigrini, an accounting faculty member in the College of Business and Economics, co-authored an article published in the October, 2017, issue of Hepatology, the leading liver disease journal. Nigrini, who primarily teaches forensic accounting, and his co-authors at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed the reported tumor sizes of patients on the liver transplant waitlist.
An estimated 275 fewer children were born in Flint, Michigan, while the city was using lead-contaminated water from the Flint River, according to findings by researchers from West Virginia University and the University of Kansas.
Biology students at are studying the impact of climate change on the forests of the Appalachian Mountains. Justin Mathias and Nanette Raczka, Ph.D. students in the Department of Biology, have received Smithsonian Center for Tropical Forest Science-ForestGEO grants to support their research.
While the future of vehicles may be driverless, West Virginia University is steering the technology in the right direction. WVU’s researchers are working to improve vehicle and smart infrastructure technology that underpins their development and their benefit to communities in areas such as safety, energy, traffic, economic opportunity and more.
Under conventional magnification, the crystals Aaron Robart grows in his lab may look like simple rock salt, but by bombarding them with X-rays, he and his research team can build computational models that reveal the molecules within.