Announcements
Lawmakers welcome hygiene students for advocacy day in Charleston
Students from dental hygiene program at West Virginia University School of Dentistry joined board members from the West Virginia Dental Hygiene Association in Charleston February 11, 2022 to meet with state lawmakers.
Faculty from WVU dental school present at state oral health summit
Five School of Dentistry faculty members will be guest presenters at the 2nd Annual West Virginia Oral Health Summit scheduled for Friday, March 4, 2022 at Stonewall Resort State Park in Roanoke, WV.
WVU in the News: Scholarships available for McDowell and Mercer nurse education
MORGANTOWN — Nurses living in Mercer and McDowell counties can now apply for scholarships in the online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course, the West Virginia University School of Nursing announced recently.
Support dental fraternity philanthropy and have chance at $1,000 prize
The elimination dinner will be held March 26, 2022 at Morgantown Knights of Columbus, 379 North Parkview Drive. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Dinner and drawings begin at 6 p.m.
WVU to ease mask policy in some indoor spaces, mask requirements for classrooms, labs will continue
As infection and hospitalization rates from COVID-19 decrease, West Virginia University will lift mask requirements for individuals in indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination status, effective immediately. However, the University will continue to require masks in all classrooms, labs or any WVU System facility or building being used as a classroom. Masks will continue to be required for all persons in all indoor locations of the Health Sciences Campuses.
Public Health assistant professor elected to national service role
WVU School of Public Health Assistant Professor Brian Hendricks has been elected to serve on the NIH Population Sciences Pathobiology Governance Committee.
Feb. 15, 2022 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Feb. 15, 2022.
HSCommunity: Black History Month
This year’s Black History Month theme, Black Health and Wellness, shines an important light on the work Black healthcare workers and advocates do to positively impact their communities and decrease health disparities.
WVU in the News: Against a backdrop of record hospitalizations and persistent deaths, WV lawmakers target COVID response, not the virus itself
Dr. Judith Feinberg and Valarie Blake weigh in on a couple of bills dealing with West Virginia’s COVID response that are pending at the State Capitol in a story from Mountain State Spotlight.
Feb. 14, 2022 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Feb. 14, 2022.