Liz Engler-Chiurazzi, Director of the Rodent Behavior Core, received a travel award from the Society for Neurosciences to participate in the November, 2014 meeting in Washington, DC.
Danielle Doll, PhD student working with the James W. Simpkins received the 1st Place Award, Basic Science Oral Presentation Division at the Eastern-Atlantic Student Research Forum, Miami, FL, February 27, 2015.
Jessica Povroznik, working with Paola Pergami, received the 1st Place Award in the Masters Division at the annual Van Liere Research Day competition, February 28, 2015.
Liz Engler-Chiurazzi, Director of the Rodent Behavior Core, received the Second Place Award, Post-Doctoral Fellow Poster Division at the annual Van Liere Research Day competition, February 28, 2015.
Taura Barr and her research team received a 2015 WVU Innovation Award from the WVU for having recently developed a diagnostic tool that can tell from a blood draw if a person is having a stroke, and when it began.
James W. Simpkins, received the Dean’s Excellence Award for Research, 2014, West Virginia University School of Medicine, October, 2014.
JamesW.Simpkins, received the 2014-2015 Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award in the category of Biosciences and Health Sciences from the Benedum Foundation, April, 2015.
James W. Simpkins was President, International Society for Aging and Disease from 2013-2016.
James W. Simpkins was appointed the Highland Chair of Stroke/Neurology in 2015.
James W. Simpkins received the IDeA Institutional Development Award for Clinical and Translational Research Mentoring in 2015.
Liz Engler-Chiurazzi, received First Place, WVCTSI Poster Presentation Competition, Post-Doc/Fellows Division, December 2, 2016.