Announcements
West Virginia Area Health Education Centers celebrate 25 years of building a rural health workforce
The West Virginia Area Health Education Centers (WV AHEC) proudly mark their 25th anniversary, celebrating a quarter-century of strengthening the healthcare workforce in rural and medically underserved communities across the Mountain State.
WVU Institute for Community and Rural Health celebrates 15 years of transforming rural health in West Virginia
The WVU Institute for Community and Rural Health (ICRH) is proud to commemorate its 15th anniversary, marking a decade and a half of unwavering commitment to improving the health and well-being of West Virginia's rural communities.
WVU in the News: Walking, household chores can be lifesaving therapy for people with metabolic syndrome
Bethany Barone Gibbs, chair of epidemiology and biostatistics at WVU School of Public Health, comments in a recent U.S. News & World Report article on recent study findings indicating the potential benefits of light activity.
WVU School of Dentistry awarded Benedum Foundation grant to support training for West Virginia healthcare workers
The West Virginia University School of Dentistry will help expand access to tobacco treatment care for West Virginia residents with support from a Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation grant that will provide healthcare education through its Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program (CTTTP).
WVU nursing student, athlete and Miss West Virginia Teen USA shares her journey balancing academics, athletics and pageants
WVU School of Nursing Keyser Campus student Baylee Jarrett is no stranger to a busy schedule. Between her nursing studies, running cross-country and track, and years of pageant experience that led to her becoming Miss West Virginia Teen USA, she has learned how to juggle big goals with an even bigger passion for helping people.
WVU hires experienced scientist, academic leader to serve as provost and vice president for academic affairs
Following a national search focused on the academic future of West Virginia University, President Michael T. Benson is announcing the hiring of Beverly Wendland, an accomplished scholar and academic leader with wide-ranging higher education experience, to serve as the University’s provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Endurance and Reassurance: Exercise physiology conditions first-generation student to give back to West Virginia
Alexis Cipoletti’s fears of attending college as a first-generation student from a rural West Virginia community evaporated when she toured West Virginia University as a high school student. Now ready to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology (December 2025), she’s excelled beyond her expectations and is prepared for her next WVU journey — a seat in the physician assistant graduate program.
WVU in the News: Medical schools focus on prevention as well as treatment of disease
During her general surgery sub-internship at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine, fourth-year medical student Andrea Hincapie-Bendeck assisted in removing part of a patient’s bowel, necessitated by a ruptured diverticulum. At discharge, the patient asked the surgical team for information on what to eat.
WVU marks Commencement with new president, graduates and celebratory ‘Let’s Go!’
A new era began inside the Hope Coliseum Saturday (Dec. 20) as West Virginia University President Michael T. Benson spoke from the gold and blue Commencement stage for the first time, and hundreds of August and December graduates took their first steps as Mountaineer alumni. Noor Ibrahim Abdulhay, a doctoral graduate in epidemiology from the WVU School of Public Health, was the first student to cross the Commencement stage under President Benson’s leadership — a milestone moment that served as the inaugural degree conferral of his presidency.
WVU physicians urge caution as whooping cough cases continue to rise
Two West Virginia University physicians are encouraging people to recognize the early symptoms of pertussis, or whooping cough, so they can take precautions and seek treatment, when necessary, to avoid further spread of the infection.