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Channels: All Journal News, Economics, Energy, Government/Law, U.S. Politics, Local - West Virginia, Politics Channel Featured Experts,

Keywords: coal, Energy, Bankruptcy

Channels: Drugs and Drug Abuse, Pain, Pharmaceuticals, Rural Issues, Substance Abuse, U.S. Politics, Local - West Virginia, Addiction,

Keywords: Opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Opioid Abuse Epidemic

Randy Nelson, who chairs the Department of Neuroscience in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, is exploring how maintaining a truly dark sleeping environment may make it easier to keep weight off.

Channels: Diabetes, Neuro, Obesity, Sleep, Local - West Virginia, Weight Loss,

Keywords: Obesity, Diabetes, Sleep, Weight Gain, Light

The West Virginia University Department of Mathematics is set to host Morgantown Algebra Days April 13-14.

Channels: Education, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Mathematics, Algebra, commutative algebra

This year, West Virginia University became the first university in the state to offer an undergraduate neuroscience major. The program, housed in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, is a dual effort between the departments of psychology and biology.

Channels: Education, Neuro, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology

Channels: Addiction, Smoking, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Tobacco, tobacco addiction, Tobacco Cessation, at-risk population

Channels: Education, Rural Issues, Education Channel Experts, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Education, Charter Schools, School Choice

Channels: Education, Education Channel Experts, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Education, Charter Schools, School Funding

With 1.3 million active duty military personnel nationwide, coordinating and finding accessible healthcare and social services for their 1.7 million family members is a major challenge. A WVU professor is working to address these challenges and needs through the Military Families Learning Network.

Channels: Agriculture, Behavioral Science, Military Health, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Public Administration, Social Services, Healthcare, Health Insurance, Military, Social Work

As West Virginia University works toward becoming the world’s first Blue Zones Certified university, a graduate-student researcher in the WVU School of Public Health is exploring how one of the Blue Zone Project’s tenets—eating an abundance of vegetables—can make individuals with diabetes, and those at-risk of developing the condition, healthier.

Channels: All Journal News, Behavioral Science, Diabetes, Food Science, Health Food, Nutrition, Local - West Virginia,

Keywords: Diabetes, Vegetarian Diet, Social And Behavioral Sciences, Type 2 Diabetes