Announcements
WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program Noon Hour Sessions
WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program will host a series of sessions at noon on Sept. 26.
WVU pharmacy student finds purpose through courageous battle with childhood cancer
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Statistics show more than 10,000 children in the United States under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in 2019.
WVU Pharmacy student one of seven national student officers for Industry Pharmacists Organization (IPhO)
Krystal Hughes, a third-year pharmacy student at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, is one of seven students acting as a national student officer for the Industry Pharmacists Organization (IPhO). Hughes is a preceptor to IPhO’s numerous regional student officers and interns across the country. Her duties include recruiting and hiring interns, conducting interviews and establishing and managing projects on a large scale. This is the first year that IPhO has had and internships director. Hughes will hold the position until spring 2020.
WVU in the News: Don't Forget Our Frontline Caregivers in the Opioid Epidemic
America’s opioid epidemic will go down in history alongside the Spanish flu, typhoid, polio and AIDS as one of our worst public health disasters. Between 1999 and 2017, almost 218,000 people in the United States died from overdoses connected to prescription opioids, and almost as many more died from overdoses connected to illicit opioids. Of the 70,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017, two-thirds of them were opioid-connected. Deaths continue at the rate of 130 a day.
WVU in the News: Healthy Grandfamilies training coming to Preston County
Are you a grandparent suddenly raising a grandchild?
WVU’s Dean Hulsey to be recognized during Potomac State’s Homecoming
West Virginia University Potomac State College will recognize various individuals during Homecoming festivities this fall. Among those being honored at the awards banquet on September 28 is Tara Hulsey, who will be recognized with the Distinguished Service Award.
Pittsburgh Business Times: WVU Medicine making the right moves in improving care in the region
“There’s something big brewing in the south,” begins a recent article in the Pittsburgh Business Times that refers to WVU Medicine.
WVU College of Law hosting climate change public health workshop
The WVU College of Law will host "Climate Change and Public Health: Addressing the Growing Crisis" on Sept. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the College of Law Event Hall. Keynote speaker is Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. WVU speakers are professors Robert Duval of the School of Public Health and Nicolas Zegreof the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.
Dental student watch: Bailey Hollihan
A dental student's research is recognized at a national level.
WVU in the News: West Virginia University's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
The finishing touches are being put on the Innovation Center, on the WVU Health System campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, where researchers are working and where patients will be welcomed for the latest advances.