Supported by $1.7 million from the National Science Foundation, researchers are working to ensure small landowners and local communities, instead of large corporations, profit from the ability of Central Appalachian forests to remove greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Research
An upright neuroimaging device developed by West Virginia University neuroscientists, physicists and engineers that allows patients to move around while undergoing a brain scan could help set priorities for the evolution of imaging tools.
Parents of preterm babies between the ages of 3 and 7 months are encouraged to consider participating. The study involves a single visit to the University’s baby laboratory which will last less than one hour.
Harmful chemicals that don’t break down are present in public water systems nationwide, and University economists have found densely populated, higher income areas and those that use groundwater tend to have the highest contamination levels.
Physics and Astronomy graduate student Reshma Anna-Thomas grew up in the Indian state of Kerala and obtained a master’s degree in integrated physics from Pondicherry University before moving to West Virginia. She came to WVU to pursue her passion — radio astronomy — and she’s now in the fifth year of her doctoral program.
After almost a year into his role at WVU as the senior associate vice president for research and graduate education for Health Sciences and vice dean of research for the School of Medicine, Ming Lei is looking toward the future.