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New funding sought as COVID-19 exhausts budget of program helping SNAP recipients and West Virginia farmers

Participation in SNAP Stretch—a program that allows customers using SNAP benefits to double or triple their spending power at West Virginia farmers markets and farm stands— has increased by more than 600 percent this year, largely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far in 2020, the program has helped more than 2,000 West Virginia families. Created by a partnership of the WVU Extension Service Family Nutrition Program and the West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition, the program allows SNAP users to receive another dollar to spend on locally grown produce for every dollar they spend. Shoppers older than 60 who are accompanied by a child receive $2 for each dollar they spend.

WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute expands pioneering Alzheimer’s treatment to wider region of the brain

A hospital nurse for 33 years, Nanette Miller would call her husband Frank at the end of each shift to let him know she was coming home. On Dec. 7, 2018, the phone call came with a somber declaration: “I can’t do this anymore.” Miller had to help on another hospital floor that day. She didn’t know how to get back. Several months later, she was diagnosed with what she and her husband had feared —early onset Alzheimer’s disease. But now, not even a year removed from her official diagnosis, Miller is already on a road to potential recovery due to the expansion of a groundbreaking technique crafted by the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.

Dedicated workspaces improve quality of life during COVID-19 pandemic

There’s no place like home, but because of COVID-19, many people are learning there’s no place like the classroom or the office, either. New research led by Tina Antill Keener, an assistant professor in the West Virginia University School of Nursing, suggests that having a dedicated workspace in the home may ease the transition from in-person to remote work and education.