Announcements
Incoming dental hygiene class includes students from coast to coast states
The multipurpose event is the first meeting of all students and faculty in the program and is a time to review policy and set expectations.
WVU in the News: Beckley nursing student keys in on drug prevention training
Carley Knuckles, a junior nursing student at the West Virginia University School of Nursing Beckley Campus, recently attended the 21st Annual Mid-Year Training Institute hosted by Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), which aims to create and maintain safe, healthy and drug-free communities globally.
FACTS: Focusing on High Priority Work
WVCTSI's Females Advancing Clinical and Translational Sciences Group is hosting a special event on September 12. Dr. Susan Johnson, productivity speaker and coach as well as owner of Thriving Amidst Chaos, will present, "Focusing on High Priority Work."
WVU School of Medicine scholarship aims to keep physical therapists in West Virginia
Future physical therapists studying at the West Virginia University School of Medicine will benefit from a new scholarship established by a growing north-central West Virginia practice to help keep skilled clinicians in the state.
WVU in the News: West Virginia University to receive federal funding for mobile wastewater testing lab
West Virginia University is set to receive $930,000 in federal funding to develop and equip a mobile wastewater testing laboratory for use across West Virginia. The mobile lab will help forecast infectious disease outbreaks and detect where drug misuse may be widespread.
August 16, 2022 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for August 16, 2022.
WVU in the News: A hole in the head - Can a brain implant treat drug addiction?
On a bright summer day in July 2021, James Fisher rested nervously, with a newly shaved head, in a hospital bed surrounded by blinding white lights and surgeons shuffling about in blue scrubs. He was being prepped for an experimental brain surgery at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
Eggleston to lead community health innovation at WVU Health Sciences
Lifestyle medicine expert Emma Morton-Eggleston, M.D., M.P.H., has been named associate vice president for community health innovation at West Virginia University Health Sciences.
WVU studies link between pregnancy, sedentary behavior, disease risk
For reasons scientists don’t fully understand, women in their 20s, 30s and 40s tend to develop cardiovascular-disease risk factors much faster than men of similar ages do. West Virginia University epidemiologist Bethany Barone Gibbs is exploring what role adverse pregnancy outcomes — like preeclampsia and gestational diabetes — play in that disparity. She’s also exploring whether physical activity can reduce or eliminate it.
Clay's Purpose — August 2022
Welcome home. To Almost Heaven. For those of you who are new to Health Sciences, welcome. To those of you who are returning, welcome back. We are so happy to have each one of you join us as part of our family and community here at WVU.