Announcements
Gold Rush t-shirts available at School of Nursing
The annual United Way Gold Rush is early this year - September 3, so get your t-shirt now!
WVU to mark Morgantown Overdose Awareness Day with panel discussion
Makalynn, a WVU student in a 12-step recovery program, is among the WVU and Morgantown representatives who will take part in a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Mountainlair.
NIOSH, WVU bring workplace safety training to Monongalia County schools
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is collaborating with West Virginia University (WVU) and the Monongalia County School System to bring Youth@Work: Talking Safety, a curriculum in workplace safety and health, to local 8th grade students.
Students inducted in the newly created Van Liere Research Society
For more information on the program, please visit: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/RESOFF/
Athletic director to talk with health faculty & students
Shane Lyons, director of athletics at West Virginia University, will be the guest for this month’s “Connect with Clay” Wednesday, Aug. 17, at noon in Room 1905 Health Sciences North on the Morgantown campus.
Local tax help available at Health Sciences
The Monongalia County Assessor’s Office will visit the Health Sciences Center Wednesday and Thursday to assist county residents with forms and questions related to county taxes.
Hospital leaders from China study trauma care at WVU
This week, the WVU Medicine Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center and the WVU Health Sciences Global Engagement Office welcomed several leaders from Changzhou No. 2 People’s Hospital, Jiangsu, China. The group, led by hospital president Xihu Qin, M.D., Ph.D., traveled to Morgantown to study WVU’s trauma program.
Change comes from within
West Virginia University's responsibility as the state’s Land Grant University is to use the power of knowledge and human connection to lift up people everywhere in our state. But as they say on airplanes, in an emergency you should put on your own oxygen mask first, before you attempt to help others. You can’t be much help if you gasping for air. That’s why WVU's vice president for health sciences has asked a group of leaders from across WVU Medicine and the Health Sciences Center – and outside our campus – to join the new Quality of Life Initiative.
DHHR develops plan to transform West Virginia’s health care system with support from WVU
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the WVU School of Public Health today released a major plan to improve the state’s health care system.