Announcements
Mindful Morsels: Science of Mindful Compassion
Neuroscientist Julie Brefczysnki-Lewis, Phd, shares the scientific research behind mindful compassion and how it can benefit social interaction and personal well-being.
WVU’s Brumage named new director of state Office of Drug Control Policy
Dr. Michael Brumage, assistant dean for public health practice and service at the West Virginia University School of Public Health, will lead the effort against West Virginia’s opioid drug crisis.
Feb. 21 panel event to address "The Realities of Being a Minority Student at a PWI"
The Office of Equity Assurance (Title IX) students, faculty and staff to an informal panel discussion entitled: "The Realities of Being a Minority Student at a PWI." The event will take place on Wednesday, February 21 from 5–7 p.m. in G20 Ming Hsieh.
WVCTSI announces 3 spring funding opportunities
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) has released requests for applications (RFA) for the Collaborative, Launch Pilot Grant, and Small Grant funding opportunities.
Monthly Biostatistics Seminar for February 2018
Casey Jelsema, PhD, Assistant Professor, WVU Department of Statistics, will present "Research Snapshot: Spatial and Constrained Inference" as part of the the Monthly Biostatistics Seminar series. His presentation will be on Thursday, February 15, 2018 from 10:50 – 11:50 am in ERMA 301.
Gold Humanism Week at WVU Health Sciences kicks off Feb.12
The Gold Humanism Honor Society is organizing an outstanding group of speakers for the annual Gold Humanism Week lecture series beginning Monday, Feb. 12. Topics include hospitality, empathy and gratitude in medicine, creative writing and pain addiction.
WVCTSI streamlines service delivery and tracking with iLab service request tool
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute has launched an innovative new service request tool; the iLab Core Management System. This new tool will allow WVCTSI members to access services faster while facilitating more effective and efficient service delivery and tracking.
Dr. Jim Withers: Bringing “street medicine” to the homeless
For more than two decades, Dr. Jim Withers has been doing street rounds in Pittsburgh, PA, providing medical care to the homeless. Withers, of Operation Safety Net (OSN) and a 2015 Top 10 CNN Hero will be giving a talk on homelessness and street medicine on the WVU Health Sciences Campus on Monday February 12. The public event will be at noon in the Okey Patteson Auditorium. Guests are also invited for refreshments and the chance to speak with Dr. Withers following the talk in the Pylons area.
WVU researchers investigate bioelectricity to better understand breast cancer
Although breast cancer mortality has declined in the U.S., it is still the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women under 60 years old. WVU School of Public Health Epidemiology professor Sarah Knox and tumor immunologist Timothy Eubank from the School of Medicine are partnering to investigate how bioelectricity affects the interaction between cells and the microenvironment surrounding them.
Public health researchers create safety education guide for post-secondary construction programs
Two to three construction workers die each day on job sites in the United States. To combat these statistics, public health researchers from West Virginia University and the University of California, Berkley have created an innovative, evidence-based safety guide for post-secondary Career Technical Education (CTE) construction programs.