Hosted by Mary Fanning, WVU Hospitals chief nursing officer, and Malene Davis, 1984 class president, 11 alums gathered alongside several of their faculty members during Homecoming Weekend to reminisce and enjoy a reunion brunch.
Health
The immersive training at the David and Jo Ann Shaw Center for Simulation Training and Education for Patient Safety provided students with an overview of what role an occupational therapist would play in different scenarios within the NICU.
Joseph Watkins, biomedical laboratory diagnostics program senior, has found his pathway in histotechnology at the School of Medicine. Histotechnologists process tissue for examination following a surgical procedure.
Braeden Thornton presented “Nursing Care and Education in Cyprus” during WVU Global Health Week 2024. While abroad, he took a health systems class and an ethics class.
Construction is set to start in the new year on an extensive, multiphase project that encompasses approximately 50,000 square feet in the Health Sciences Center on the Morgantown Campus that has largely remained unchanged from its original footprint since the school’s founding in 1957. Working in collaboration with WVU Facilities Management and SmithGroup, an international architectural design company, the facility has been reimagined to meet 21st century needs.
Angel Smothers, associate dean for community engagement at the School of Nursing, recently joined the nonprofit organization that has provided basic necessities to individuals in need in southern West Virginia for more than two decades.