Announcements
Exercise Physiology is represented at NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge (updated)
Lisa Kogan, a graduate student in Dr. Yakovenko's laboratory of Neural Engineering in Exercise Physiology, is in WVU team competing to "demonstrate an autonomous capability to locate and retrieve specific sample types from various locations over a wide and varied terrain and return those samples to a designated zone in a specified amount of time with limited mapping data." NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will award a total $1.5 million to the successful teams: http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/centennial_challenges/sample_return_robot/about.html.
WVCTSI engages communities in health discussion
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) recently held three public town hall meetings in the Greenbrier Valley, New River Valley, and the Mid-Ohio Valley. These public forums provided community members with an opportunity to discuss the health concerns they feel are most important in their communities and the role research can play in addressing those concerns.
WVU researcher: Self-injury ties with diabetes as 7th leading cause of death in U.S.
A new study finds self-injury – suicide and drug self-intoxication – ties with diabetes as the seventh leading cause of death and ranks ahead of influenza and pneumonia combined and kidney disease.
Students inducted in the newly created Van Liere Research Society
For more information on the program, please visit: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/RESOFF/
Noted nursing expert joins WVU to lead research and scholarship efforts
Accomplished nursing professor and researcher Dr. Ubolrat “Diu” Piamjariyakul has been named Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at the West Virginia University School of Nursing.
WV-INBRE program brings faculty and student researchers across the state to WVU and Marshall for research experience
West Virginia University and Marshall University received a grant for approximately $16 million dollars in 2014 to be distributed over the course of five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).
Change comes from within
West Virginia University's responsibility as the state’s Land Grant University is to use the power of knowledge and human connection to lift up people everywhere in our state. But as they say on airplanes, in an emergency you should put on your own oxygen mask first, before you attempt to help others. You can’t be much help if you gasping for air. That’s why WVU's vice president for health sciences has asked a group of leaders from across WVU Medicine and the Health Sciences Center – and outside our campus – to join the new Quality of Life Initiative.
DHHR develops plan to transform West Virginia’s health care system with support from WVU
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the WVU School of Public Health today released a major plan to improve the state’s health care system.
Internal Study Section: The A0 Review Panel
The Investigator “Intent for Pre-Review” (PI name, grant title and specific aims) for the next A0 Internal Study Section review is due to Valerie Lemasters (vlemasters@hsc.wvu.edu) next Monday, August 1 by close of business.