This week's Department of Medicine grand rounds will feature a presentation by Dr. Sonikpreet Aulakhon on the applicability of precision medicine for glioma tomorrow (May 13) at 8 a.m. via Zoom.
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Dr. David Kappel will present “The En-Corporation and the De-Personalization of American Medicine: A Cautionary Tale” as the H. Bernard Zimmerman visiting professor at the Department of Surgery Special Grand Rounds May 18 at 7:30 a.m.
This Thursday, the Office of the Provost will round out its monthly Campus Conversations focused on academic transformation initiatives. The fifth and final session, “Academic Transformation: Intercollegiate Incubator and Semester Wrap-Up,” is scheduled for Thursday, May 12, at 11 a.m. This session will be virtual only. The Zoom webinar will go live five to 10 minutes before the event starts.
As part of our continuing efforts to recognize, reward and retain top talent, West Virginia University is formally kicking off its 2022 Compensation Program this week. Through the program, WVU seeks to provide merit-based increases to faculty and staff who have strong performance in areas that support the University’s mission and operations and have a compensation ratio (compa-ratio) that needs enhanced to be in a market-competitive position.
The WVU Humanities Center has announced the 2022-23 grant recipients who will support interdisciplinary, collaborative and public-facing projects in history, culture and the arts across multiple disciplines. Funded by a WVU endowment from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, grants were awarded to faculty members engaged in humanistic inquiry through three categories: Humanities Center Fellowship Grants, Pedagogy and Innovation Grants or Research Travel Grants.
A well-known broadcast journalist in the Mountain State and recent arrival to West Virginia University, Shauna Johnson has been named director of news communications for University Relations and Enrollment Management. Johnson joined WVU in April 2021 as the news and information manager for the UREM Office of Communications. In her new role, she serves a key position in the unit, providing day-to-day leadership in news and media relations operations, including crisis communications.