Announcements
BeWell Blog — "Try This Tuesday: Yoga"
The BeWell team is offering a series of helpful tips for mental health and wellbeing called "Try This Tuesday." This week, Seth Haxel discusses the mental health benefits of yoga. Studies have found that engaging in yoga can help improve your sleep, increase your energy, improve your mood, and help you manage stress.
Medicine Grand Rounds hosts Dr. Chirag Lavani
Dr. Chirag Lavani will speak as part of the Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, September 3, at 8 a.m. This presentation titled "Salt and Water: Insight into Hyponatremia" will take place over Zoom and in person at the Fukushima Auditorium, Room 1901.
Guidance for WVU Health Sciences faculty, staff and students working in patient care environments
While West Virginia University is not requiring COVID-19 vaccination at this time, all students, residents, faculty, and staff practicing, working, or serving on clinical rotations will need to follow COVID-19 vaccination mandates issued by healthcare organizations where these activities occur.
Guidance for West Virginia University’s Engagement in the Build Back Better Program
The $1B Build Back Better Regional Challenge, led out of the US Economic Development Agency (Build Back Better Regional Challenge | U.S. Economic Development Administration (eda.gov)), has a deadline of Oct. 19, 2021 for Phase 1 proposals from regional coalitions.
HSC faculty, staff and students invited to upcoming Safe Zone training
Health Sciences faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a Safe Zone Training through the WVU LGBTQ+ Center. The training is set for Tuesday, Sept. 28 from 4 to 5 p.m. at 1909 Health Sciences Center - North. A Zoom option is available.
Applications now being accepted for NIH K Grant Writing Group
WVCTSI is now accepting applications for its K Grant Writing Groups (K-Clubs).
Zoom Recordings of HSC Faculty Development Sessions Available
The noon HSC Faculty Development sessions are posted on SOLE; to gain access to the HSC Faculty Development Noon Sessions one needs access to the SOLE site.
WVU Walk with a Future Doc program works to promote wellness, generate discussion among medical students
A student-led organization at the West Virginia University School of Medicine is working to promote wellness through bi-weekly walks that generate discussion on ways people can improve both their physical and mental health.
Faculty Development Zoom session: "Mentoring and Motivating the Novice Author to Write for the Clinical Literature"
All faculty are invited to attend the WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program presentation "Mentoring and Motivating the Novice Author to Write for the Clinical Literature" Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, from noon to 1 p.m.
Stay Sane program seeking HSC Graduate Students
Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness, the Exercise Physiology Department is looking for Health Sciences Graduate students who would like to participate in the Stay SANE! (Support, Accountability, Exercise, Nutrition) wellness program.