Announcements

Noted nursing expert joins WVU to lead research and scholarship efforts

Accomplished nursing professor and researcher Dr. Ubolrat “Diu” Piamjariyakul has been named Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at the West Virginia University School of Nursing.

WVU Pharmacy students receive white coats

When Deborah Pope of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was in middle school, she knew she wanted to be a health care professional when she grew up. A friend suggested becoming a pharmacist, and the more Pope researched the profession, she discovered it was the right career for her.

Hospital leaders from China study trauma care at WVU

This week, the WVU Medicine Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center and the WVU Health Sciences Global Engagement Office welcomed several leaders from Changzhou No. 2 People’s Hospital, Jiangsu, China. The group, led by hospital president Xihu Qin, M.D., Ph.D., traveled to Morgantown to study WVU’s trauma program.

WV-INBRE program brings faculty and student researchers across the state to WVU and Marshall for research experience

West Virginia University and Marshall University received a grant for approximately $16 million dollars in 2014 to be distributed over the course of five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).

Change comes from within

West Virginia University's responsibility as the state’s Land Grant University is to use the power of knowledge and human connection to lift up people everywhere in our state. But as they say on airplanes, in an emergency you should put on your own oxygen mask first, before you attempt to help others. You can’t be much help if you gasping for air. That’s why WVU's vice president for health sciences has asked a group of leaders from across WVU Medicine and the Health Sciences Center – and outside our campus – to join the new Quality of Life Initiative.