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WVU team unmasks effective N95 alternatives

WVU’s Timothy Nurkiewicz and a diverse team of researchers tested various masks and materials to determine viable alternatives to an N95 mask. On top, the two left masks are 3D-printed designs from the Billings Clinic, followed by a CPAP mask and a black mask that failed the testing. Below the masks are 3D-printed adapters, developed by Nurkiewicz's team, that can be attached universally to any mask. The 3D devices use 3M 1900 filter material. In the third row down, various filter materials were tested to improve 3D mask performance and include in the adapters. At the bottom are hand-sewn masks from Camp Dawson in Kingwood. (WVU Photo/Travis Goldsmith) 

WVU CORONAVIRUS: Busting myths about masks

“It’s important that the users understand that nothing is 100 percent effective, but rather wearing a mask is a part of a series of behavior changes during the COVID pandemic that we can take that decreases the chance of us contracting COVID from another person.” —Timothy Nurkiewicz, director of the WVU Center for Inhalation Toxicology

New center for neuroscience research brings together faculty, students across WVU

Just as nerve cells don’t work in isolation when we think, speak or move, scientists don’t work alone when they study the nervous system. A new center at West Virginia University—the Center for Foundational Neuroscience Research and Education—will help researchers from different departments collaborate in a similar way. By teaming up, the researchers will use their unique skillsets and backgrounds to make neuroscience discoveries that might take much longer otherwise.