Announcements
School of Public Health recognizes top students, faculty, staff and community partner, celebrates ‘firsts’
In keeping with the annual tradition of recognizing its outstanding students, faculty, staff and community partners, the West Virginia University School of Public Health held its annual year-end awards ceremony on Thursday, April 28, in the Health Sciences Center Fukushima Auditorium.
May 4, 2022 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for May 4, 2022.
Five faculty named to Honors College Faculty Fellows program
Lynsey Biondi, associate professor in the Department of Surgery, will teach “Ethics & Organ Transplant” where students will study the science of transplant surgery and immunology and analyze its bioethical implications using case studies of real-life dilemmas faced by medical professionals, patients and families.
“Like a cake without a recipe,” WVU School of Nursing professor aims to standardize research around aromatics
Marian Reven will share her presentation, “Aromatic research at the crossroads: Time to set the course,” at the upcoming Botanica2022 conference. Set for May 20-22, Botanica2022 is the leading international conference for clinical aromatherapy and related herbal therapeutics. Twenty-six speakers from 13 countries will be represented.
WVU experiential business learning, health care outreach and personalized nursing bolstered by couple’s $1.8M gift
A $1.8 million gift to West Virginia University from Mountain State natives Kimberly and Rusty Hutson, Jr., will bolster education, health care and outreach efforts to aid residents across the state.
May 3, 2022 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for May 3, 2022.
WVU in the News: Us & Them — Hearing COVID perspectives along the ‘trust continuum’
Dr. Clay Marsh and Julia Daisy Fraustino talk about trust in the time of COVID on an episode of West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s “Us and Them.”
Making untreatable vision problems treatable: WVU receives $11M for visual sciences research center
With a new $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, West Virginia University has become just the second university in the country to receive funding for a visual-sciences Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
WVU researchers help develop first-of-its-kind vaccination due date calculator
As science advances alongside the constantly changing virus that causes COVID-19, tools and guidelines also change, and people in West Virginia and across the nation have been challenged to stay up-to-date as vaccination guidance has evolved—a task sometimes easier said than done.
WVU experiences pave the path for a career in social justice for current public health leader
In March, current PhD students in the West Virginia University School of Public Health had the chance to meet with a WVU alumnus who’s working at the crossroads of public health and social justice.