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• Diversity & Society: New course encourages students to become comfortable with the uncomfortable

  Thursday, January 14, 2021

  In a newly developed course, West Virginia University undergraduate and graduate students will have an opportunity to expand how they think about diversity, power, oppression, social justice and more. Diversity & Society, DSGN 493B, is open to all academic majors and there are no course prerequisites.

• WVU provides updates ahead of spring semester, which begins Jan. 19

  Monday, January 11, 2021

  The spring semester begins on Tuesday, Jan. 19, and West Virginia University is sharing details to help students, faculty and staff stay safe and abide by the University’s guidance to protect the campuses and surrounding communities from the spread of COVID-19.

• President Gee: ‘Democracy is sacred, strong and will always prevail – even in the darkest of times’

  Friday, January 8, 2021

  West Virginia University President Gordon Gee wrote to the University Community Friday (Jan. 8), noting that America’s democracy will prevail in spite of the violence in Washington, DC Wednesday (Jan. 6) and that this moment is a calling for WVU and institutions of higher education everywhere.

• WVU mourns loss of longtime pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Bill Neal

  Monday, January 4, 2021

  William A. Neal, MD, who earned his medical degree at West Virginia University in 1966 and enjoyed an instrumental career in pediatric medicine, died Fri., Jan 1 at home in Morgantown.

• WVU Vaccine Development Center and Leidos team up to explore new immunotherapy pathway

  Wednesday, December 23, 2020

  The West Virginia University Vaccine Development Center and Leidos, Inc. (NYSE: LDOS), a Fortune® 500 science and technology leader, are teaming up to investigate new treatments related to the bacterium pseudomonas aeruginosa. The bacterium can often lead to blood infections, pneumonia and post-surgery complications.

• ‘Don’t feel like a guinea pig:’ New COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective

  Tuesday, December 22, 2020

  It may seem that the COVID-19 vaccine came from out of nowhere, but it actually underwent the same rigorous testing that all vaccines do. It’s safe. It’s effective. And it represents a huge step toward making life feel normal again, according to one West Virginia University vaccine expert.

• $100K gift boosts scholarships to support School of Medicine histotechnology students

  Tuesday, December 22, 2020

  A growing number of scholarships are available to students in the West Virginia University School of Medicine’s in-demand histotechnology program, which prepares graduates to work in a challenging scientific field that offers ample well-paid job opportunities.

• WVU in the News: When a West Virginia county eliminated its needle exchange, experts forewarned of an HIV crisis. Now it’s here.

  Thursday, December 17, 2020

  On a Wednesday evening in mid-October, people gathered in a parking lot off of Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston. A man played guitar; a woman talked about the perils of virtual schooling during the pandemic. Blue and green canopy tents covered folding tables that were set up with snacks and bags of fluffy sandwich rolls. 

• Donor-funded research position curbs disease associated with opioid epidemic

  Monday, December 14, 2020

  As West Virginia became the epicenter of the nation’s opioid epidemic, donor dollars brought Dr. Judith Feinberg to the West Virginia University School of Medicine to expand research focused on the intersection of addiction and infectious disease. More than five years later, her work is making a difference by expanding testing and increasing access to treatments for diseases spread through injection drug use – HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

• WVU, DHHR establish new COVID-19 testing laboratory in Morgantown

  Thursday, December 10, 2020

  The WVU Rapid Development Laboratory utilizes automation equipment that speeds up the process for delivering COVID-19 test results.