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Annual Farmers Market to return May 25

The annual WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals Farmers Market will kick off the 2016 season at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 25, in the parking lot between the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute on the WVU Health Sciences campus.

A funny thing happened on the way to commencement

When John G. Thomas completed his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1969, he did not stick around for Commencement. “In 30 hours, I went from being a graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences to a tank commander at Fort Sam Houston in Texas,” he recalls. On Friday, May 13, Thomas - a professor emeritus in the WVU Schools of Medicine and Dentistry - returned to Syracuse as its oldest and presumably most illustrious doctoral degree recipient.

Music camp planned for blind and visually impaired children

Twenty-nine blind and visually impaired children from across West Virginia will sharpen their musical skills – and learn important life lessons – at WVU Eye Institute’s Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Program (CVRP) Summer Institute June 13-17 in Morgantown. Blessing Offor, a blind musician who earned national attention for his performance on “The Voice” in 2014, will coach the group in preparation for a public concert June 17 at WVU’s Creative Arts Center.

NASA chief and WVU alum to speak at Health Sciences Center

Judith Hayes, M.S., M.P.H., NASA chief of Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, will speak at a West Virginia University Department of Exercise Physiology seminar on Thursday, May 12 at noon in the WVU Health Sciences Center, room 1909.