Announcements
BeWell Blog — "Try This Tuesday: ACCEPTS"
The BeWell team is offering a series of helpful tips for mental health and wellbeing called "Try This Tuesday." This week, Layne Hitchcock discusses ACCEPTS — an acronym for a distress tolerance skill used to help cope with intense and unpleasant emotions. Each letter represents a way to distract yourself in difficult emotional situations.
‘This is important,’ WVU law professor remembers 9/11 in Manhattan ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks
Twenty years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an associate professor in West Virginia University’s College of Law still has “the most vivid pictures” in her head of that morning in New York City.
WVU in the News: The unvaccinated are a risk to all of us
In this week's edition of the Covid Q&A, we look at the impact unvaccinated people are having on the pandemic. In hopes of making this very confusing time just a little less so, each week Bloomberg Prognosis is picking one question sent in by readers and putting it to experts in the field. This week's question comes to us from Robert in Northridge, California. Robert asks:
Sept. 6, 2021 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Sept. 6, 2021.
RESULTS National Advocacy and Organizing Fellowship seeking applications
In this 11-month experience, RESULTS Fellows advocate at the intersections of poverty and anti-oppression and learn how to work with the media, their communities, and policymakers to create change.
Sept. 3, 2021 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Sept. 3, 2021.
WV STEPS Center to host Healthcare Simulation Week Sept. 13-17
The David and Jo Ann Shaw Center for Simulation Training and Education for Patient Safety (WV STEPS Center) will host Healthcare Simulation week Monday, Sept. 13 through Friday, Sept. 17.
Pre-Health Office announces Fall 2021 schedule of seminars
The WVU Pre-Health Professional Development Office has finalized their Fall 2021 schedule of seminars. Find full seminar and workshop descriptions and register for any of these events by vising the Get Started page of their website.
WVU internal medicine physician to lead talk on narrative medicine during Walk with a Future Doc session
Participants at the upcoming WVU Walk with a Future Doc session, 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, will have the opportunity to learn about narrative medicine while also getting some exercise.
Sept. 2, 2021 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for Sept. 2, 2021.