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.
The Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Summer School (NFUSS) is
a six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), designed to provide undergraduate students with
comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear
forensics. Through laboratory experiments and complementary lectures, students
are introduced to the practice and technical aspects of nuclear forensic
science. The NFUSS program will be held at the University of
Texas-Austin and will also include a tour of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL).
The application deadline is March 6th,
2020 at 3:00pm ET.
REAC/TS is an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
facility with the mission to strengthen the medical response to radiological
and nuclear incidents. REAC/TS has recently partnered with NASA to provide
specialized knowledge for the medical community and emergency planners in the
area around the upcoming Mars Rover Launch. ORISE is hosting a research-based
challenge for undergraduate students to research a partner supporting NASA’s
upcoming Mars 2020 Launch, learn about the partner’s capabilities, and discuss
why that partner is necessary for the mission. Your research could win you
a $5,000 scholarship!
The deadline for this competition is March 31st,
2020, and winners will be announced in early May.
Are you doing research in a chemistry-related field?
The deadline to submit applications is March
15, 2020 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. The grants are
made possible by designated funds from the National Academy of Sciences and
from donations. Students may apply for funding from the program twice each
year.
Three
to five student-worker positions are needed in the Bioinformatics Core under
Dr. Michael Hu at the Department of Microbiology,
Immunology and Cell Biology. The positions are expected to work
15 to 20 hours a week while classes are in session and paid at $10 an hour
through the end of June 2020 with a possibility of extensions based on
performance. Junior and senior undergraduate students in biology, computer
science, engineering, mathematics or physics with programming experience are
encouraged to apply. Students in the biology background but a strong motivation
to learn programing will also be considered. Review of applications will start on Feb. 28
