Announcements
Graduating students invited to register for Multicultural Graduation Celebration
The West Virginia University Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Multicultural Graduation Celebration ceremony intentionally highlights and honors culture and celebrates diversity. This ceremony is open to WVU students graduating in spring, summer or fall 2022.
STAR, related systems will be down Sunday for important updates
Banner (STAR) and STAR-related applications will be unavailable until 6 p.m. Sunday, March 13, for important updates that require more time than our normal maintenance window allows. This will affect the Banner self-service app (star.wvu.edu), Banner administrative forms (STAR INB), Banner Document Management, Banner Operational Data Store and Degree Works.
Mountaineer Station parking garage closed next week
Beginning Monday, March 14, the roadway near the Mountaineer Station parking garage will undergo paving. In order to complete this paving project, the parking garage will be closed from Saturday, March 12, through Sunday, March 20.
WVU postponing March 16 pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Mountainlair
Due to anticipated decreased demand as a result of spring break next week, West Virginia University and the Monongalia County Health Department have decided to postpone the pop-up COVID-19 vaccine at the Mountainlair originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 16.
Diabetes group visits offer new way for patients to manage disease
After Renee Schwertfeger, FNP-BC, NP joined the WVU Medicine Department of Endocrinology 15 years ago, she began to see an opportunity for a new approach to how patients with diabetes manage their disease.
Six ways to alleviate the stressed healthcare industry in light of COVID-19, according to WVU economists
Since 2020, COVID-19 has squeezed the healthcare industry into a stranglehold that’s caused staffing shortages and restricted access to quality patient care. This forced some policymakers to enact temporary waivers of licensing restrictions to ease up those burdens.
Sales of Transplant Alliance's organ donor T-shirts will benefit patients, donor wall
Orders are due Monday, March 14.
WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute neurosurgeon first in the world to treat patient with next-generation IRRAflow system
Nicholas Brandmeir, MD, neurosurgeon at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, is the first neurosurgeon to successfully treat a hemorrhagic stroke patient using the next-generation IRRAflow® system.
Elkins girl named West Virginia’s 2022 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Champion Child
WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital patient Baylee Millett, 12, of Elkins has been named the 2022 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® Champion Child for West Virginia.
Residency Match Day support offered by BeWell
Let’s be honest, the journey leading up to Match Day is a long, grueling process. You have spent LOTS of time and energy building your medical school narrative – passing block and comprehensive exams, constantly pivoting in each clinical rotation – all the while finding the time to interview and lean into other identities that are important to you. Wait, you have other identities besides being a medical school student?