Announcements
WVU’s food bank to open second location, The Rack II@HSC
West Virginia University Health Sciences will soon open “The Rack II@HSC,” WVU Health Sciences’ Campus Food Bank, to assist with campus-wide efforts to address the growing population of homeless and/or hungry employees/students.
WVU Health Sciences to host nationally recognized speakers for Global Health Week
Global health experts from around the nation will take on important issues during the West Virginia University School of Medicine's 2016 Global Health Week.
Health Sciences researchers work published in Nature Microbiology
Two WVU Health Sciences researchers recently had their work published online in Nature Microbiology, a scientific journal that publishes exceptional research from across the field of microbiology. The manuscript is entitled “Spirochaete flagella hook proteins self-catalyse a lysinoalanine covalent crosslink for motility.”
Internationally known expert joins WVU School of Public Health as first endowed professor
Internationally renowned researcher Gordon S. Smith, M.B., Ch.B., MPH, has joined the WVU School of Public Health as the inaugural Stuart M. and Joyce N. Robbins Distinguished Professor in Epidemiology.
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.