Announcements
WVU School of Public Health professor presents at worldwide tobacco research symposium
In the 55 years since the first U.S. Surgeon General report on the health consequences of cigarette smoking, smoking has declined substantially. Despite this progress, however, it remains the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Smoking rates also remain disproportionally high and relatively unchanged among certain vulnerable populations.
Public Health student to apply data science skills in competitive summer program
This summer, WVU School of Public Health graduate student Emily Hone will represent Mountaineer Nation as one of only 15 students selected to participate in a data science program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Bodice Project: Sculptural Exhibit
West Virginia University Health Sciences Center and the Bodice Project invite you to join us February 20 - 22 in the Erickson Alumni Center Nutting Gallery for the Bodice Project Sculptural Exhibit.
The Bodice Project: Opening Night Reception
West Virginia University Health Sciences Center and the Bodice Project invite you to join us for an Opening Night Reception at the Erickson Alumni Center on February 19, 2019.*
Register now for HSC faculty engagement event March 1
The fourth annual HSC-wide Faculty Engagement Event will be held March 1 from 8– 2:45 p.m., at the Erickson Alumni Center.
WVU researchers assess how a vegetarian diet can help prevent or control diabetes
As West Virginia University works toward becoming the world’s first Blue Zones Certified university, a graduate-student researcher in the WVU School of Public Health is exploring how one of the Blue Zone Project’s tenets—eating an abundance of vegetables—can make individuals with diabetes, and those at-risk of developing the condition, healthier.
How to Effectively Engage in Research in a Community or Practice Based Setting
WVCTSI’s Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series will partner with the West Virginia Practice-Based Research Network to present a series of seminar on community engaged research. In the first entry, William Lewis, M.D., family medicine physician and co-director of the WVPBRN, and Stacey Whanger, MPH, WVPBRN network manager, will present, “How to Effectively Engage in Research in a Community or Practice Based Setting.”
Scholarships available for tobacco cessation continuing education
More than 20 scholarships are available for health care professionals interested in the School of Dentistry continuing education program on tobacco cessation treatment.
WVU researchers pen op-ed promoting vaccinations
HPML Assistant Professor Lindsay Allen, along with four other WVU researchers, recently published an op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail calling for an end to the vaccine debate in the wake of Senate Bill 454 and the measles outbreak in Washington and Oregon.
Art in the Libraries seeking submission for craftwork exhibit
The WVU Art in the Libraries committee, in collaboration with the Health Sciences Center, is seeking visual artists working in the healthcare field at WVU and WVU Medicine to participate in an exhibition in the fall of 2019 in the Health Sciences Library.