University researchers are looking for healthy adults with physically active jobs to participate in a research study seeking to understand the effects of physical activity at work on cardiovascular health.
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Potential undergraduate research mentors will receive tools and resources for use in their own mentorship practice by engaging in five training modules from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in Lyon Tower.
Participants will join sessions via Zoom on their laptop or desktop computer with a functioning webcam, speaker/headphones, mouse or trackpad, and high speed internet from any location.
Zhi Gu “Patrick” Li, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently won the Best Student Poster Presentation award at the 2024 Geospace Environment Modeling annual meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado. Li’s achievement marks the second time since 2017 that a WVU student has won this award, positioning WVU as the institution with the second-highest number of winners in the inner magnetosphere category, just behind Boston University.
Jeanette Garcia, associate professor in the College of Applied Human Sciences School of Sport Sciences, first found her purpose promoting physical activity in youth and families affected by autism while a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
This study involves a computer-based task. Participants will join one to three hour Zoom sessions from any location.