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WVU in the News: How are new student loan caps affecting medical students?

While facing all the normal stresses of starting a rigorous professional program, the students who started medical school in July also are facing some additional challenges. 2025’s Public Law 119-21, which the Trump Administration calls the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” set new limits on how much money medical and other professional school students can borrow from federal loan programs each year to pay for their tuition, fees, and other expenses starting July 1. In a state like West Virginia, which suffers from critical shortages of physicians and other medical providers in many areas and specialties, the changes in federal student loan rules have created a new environment both students and administrators have to figure out how to navigate. But, at least for now, officials from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and West Virginia University say students who accepted seats in their medical school classes of 2030 have been able to figure out how to pay the costs to attend.

WVU in the News: Examining The Collateral Damage Of Addiction

In this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay talks with a filmmaker whose recent movie What We Hide focuses on the collateral damage of addiction on children. And as part of a WVU training symposium, Kay hears from professionals who work with people affected by addiction about the cost on our medical system, social service networks and child protection workers. Dr. James Berry of West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute joined a discussion of What We Hide at the Carl “Rolly” Sullivan Addiction Training Institute in Morgantown. Berry is an addiction psychiatrist whose work focuses on treatment, recovery and the effects of addiction on individuals and families.