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Boosting public trust in scientists hangs on communications methods, WVU expert says
While debate over COVID-19 guidelines and vaccine development has raised skeptics’ eyebrows and undermined confidence, a West Virginia University associate professor says that communication is essential for the science community to gain the American public’s trust. According to Geah Pressgrove, scientists and communications professionals need to rethink how they communicate through four distinct dimensions of trust: competence, integrity, benevolence and openness.
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-27-2020
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-27-2020
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-26-2020
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-26-2020
"Excellence in Gender-Affirming Care" virtual training set for Oct. 8-9
An upcoming virtual training and education seminar aims to expand health care at WVU Medicine to be responsive and sensitive to the needs of transgender and gender diverse patients.
Research funding for WVU hits all-time high at $195 million this past year
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing uncertainties in the higher education world, West Virginia University received $195 million in external funding for research and other sponsored programs this past fiscal year.
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-25-2020
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-25-2020
Sept. 25, 2020 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Sept. 25, 2020.
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-24-2020
WV DHHR: COVID-19 Daily Update 9-24-2020
WVU Hardesty Festival of Ideas speakers to examine social justice issues through diverse lenses
Protecting the rights of others, exposing discrimination through entertainment venues, sharing the anxiety of recovering from substance abuse disorder and recounting the personal experience of escaping a war-torn country through refugee camps are the social justice themes woven among the four speakers at West Virginia University’s 2020 Hardesty Festival of Ideas lectures.
WVU and Pitt team up for laser trial to treat glaucoma
The National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded West Virginia University and the University of Pittsburgh $15.2 million to study how a treatment called selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) can be better used to treat glaucoma.