Announcements
Jazzmans at Cavanaugh’s to open Jan. 25 at Health Sciences
WVU Dining Services is wrapping up renovations on Cavanaugh’s coffee shop at the Health Sciences and will reopen as Jazzmans at Cavanaugh’s Jan. 25.
WVU Public Health professor aims to better understand the needs of pregnant women with substance use disorder through telehealth data
Dr. Brian Hendricks, a research assistant professor with the West Virginia University School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, is trying to better understand the needs of a historically underserved population in West Virginia — pregnant women with substance use disorder.
Jan. 13, 2021 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Jan. 13, 2021.
HSCommunity: Diversity & Society
For the first installment of HSCommunity, we speak with instructor Toni Owens, who is offering a course called Diversity & Society for the spring semester.
Jan. 12, 2021 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Jan. 12, 2021.
Health Sciences photography studio closed until further notice
WVU Photography Services will not be scheduling portrait shoots at the Health Sciences studio for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the limited space availability at the studio.
HSC Faculty Development Program Faculty Mentoring & Learning Partnership Survey
If you are in need of a mentor or if you have aspirations to be a mentor, consider completing the Faculty Mentoring & Learning Partnership Survey.
WVU law expert says health workers refusing to transport patients, administer oxygen, raises legal and ethical flags
In Los Angeles, emergency workers are deciding who gets taken to the hospital and who doesn’t as nearly 8,000 COVID-19 patients overcrowd its healthcare facilities. Ambulance crews there have been instructed to not take patients with little chance of survival and to reserve oxygen use for hospitalized coronavirus patients, a directive that West Virginia University College of Law Professor Valarie Blake says raises legal and ethical questions.
The link to COVID-19 herd immunity is in the supply chain, says WVU business expert
The journey of the COVID-19 vaccine – from the factory to the needle injected into a patient - is not immune to breaks in the supply chain. John Saldanha knows firsthand from his time in the Merchant Marines and at Dole Food Company that anything can, and likely will, go wrong before a product or service reaches its desired destination: the consumer.
Jan. 11, 2021 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Jan. 11, 2021.