West Virginia University Undergraduate Honored by the Council on
Undergraduate Research
Biochemistry major Megan Lauris and her faculty mentor, Dr. Samantha Minc of the
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery – School of Medicine Robert C. Byrd Health
Sciences Center, have earned the honor of participating in the 24th annual
Posters on the Hill event, a selective poster session sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), based
in Washington, DC. After reviewing 350 highly competitive applications from
undergraduate students from colleges and universities nationwide, only 60
projects were selected for this year’s undergraduate research showcase.
Congratulations to Office of Undergraduate Research (UGR) Ambassador Oriana Ovide who discusses her journey to WVU and her development as a researcher in forensics. See her video here. We are proud to have Oriana as a representative for UGR.
4th Annual “Virtual” Undergraduate Spring Symposium -
Available April 16 Online
We’re living up to our pioneering Mountaineer spirit by taking
WVU’s Undergraduate Spring Symposium online! The "Virtual"
Undergraduate Spring Symposium represents an effort on behalf of the WVU
community that is both innovative and ambitious. It demonstrates a fortitude of
students, faculty mentors, and an administration that is undaunted by trial. It
is a testament to the mountaineer spirit.
The
Symposium is designed to celebrate creative endeavors and research activities
of WVU’s undergraduate students. The symposium will be online and interactive,
launching Thursday, April 16, 2020 at noon and running through April 30, 2020.
The Office of Undergraduate Research has announced the recipients of the 2020 Faculty
Award for Distinction in Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, that honors faculty
members in four categories: behavioral & social sciences, biosciences &
health sciences, humanities & the arts, and physical sciences & technology.
Discover Support Systems and networking opportunities designed for first-gen students April 13 - Monday 6 - 7:30 PM!
WVU's
"Ambassadors For Change" would like to invite you to a virtual event
on first-generation collegiate issues. The goal of the Ambassadors for
Change class is to further the education of Rural First-Gen students, and
to gain a better understanding of the challenges they face in college. The
class has received a WVU Provost sponsored Transform This! Grant, and will host
a Virtual Conversation. The class invites everyone to join this Virtual Conversation on April 13th, from 6-7:30 pm on "Zoom". Links
can be found here:
The Center for
Service and Learning is hosting a Social
Action Showcase and Challengein partnership with WVU’s IDEA Hub Demo Day at
the Coliseum on April 24th. The goal of this event is to give
students the opportunity to present and be recognized for their work and ideas
that have an impact on the community.
The WV Dept of Agriculture (WVDA) near Charleston is looking
for multiple interns (semester and/or summer, paid hourly) and 5-6 permanent
positions for people with background in chemistry at various levels. Some
openings require research experience; some do not. Much of their work is
related to quantitative and qualitative analysis related to food science, water
quality, pesticides management, controlled substances regulation, etc.
These and other opportunities are being posted
to the WVU Handshake system, which provides “one-stop shopping” for various
internship and employment opportunities for WVU students. Rachael Conrad <Rachael.Conrad@mail.wvu.edu>,
WVU Career Services, can provide more information, or at least point you in the
right direction, if you are interested
The Bioinformatics Core is currently seeking 3-5 undergraduate
students who are interested in learning high-throughput sequencing data
analysis. The training position is paid at $10/hour. The students should
be highly self-motivated under the supervision of the Core director (Dr Michael
Hu). We expect the students to apply the analysis skills to address specific
biology questions from the sequencing data generated by the WVU community and to
communicate the results with the Director and collaborating faculties for data
interpretation.
Skills
gained: The skill
sets students will gain depend on the research projects ongoing with the Core. As
of now, the students will learn immediate skills on RNA-Seq data analysis. They
are also required to expand the skill sets into at least one of the following: Microbiome
16SRNA-sequencing analysis, whole-genome-sequencing for SNP and structural
variants, MicroRNA, and Exome sequencing. They will also learn additional
skills on ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, and Hi-C, at bulk-cell level and at the more
advanced single-cell level.
