A National Book Award finalist and a poet credited with inventing the demi-sonnet headline this summer’s West Virginia Writers’ Workshop. The workshop, in its 25th year, will be held in person on WVU’s downtown campus and via Zoom from July 21-24.
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Following a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the WVU Cancer Institute’s Spring Gala raised more than $840,000 to aid cancer care and research in West Virginia. More than 330 supporters attended the 35th Spring Gala, held April 29-30 at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs.
In keeping with the annual tradition of recognizing its outstanding students, faculty, staff and community partners, the West Virginia University School of Public Health held its annual year-end awards ceremony on Thursday, April 28, in the Health Sciences Center Fukushima Auditorium.
After being introduced to essential oils in 2014, Marian “Marni” Reven, an assistant professor in the Adult Health Department of the WVU School of Nursing, became passionate about the use of aromatics in health and care. She was inspired to earn her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Nursing Science because of an aromatics study in 2019. But while working on a systematic review for a study the following fall, she realized she couldn’t replicate the aromatic interventions in the randomized controlled trials because the information was so limited.
This is the second of five events being hosted by the WVU Shared Research Facilities to explore options for future imaging and characterization capabilities. This event will be held May 12 from 2-5 p.m.
WVU football coach Neal Brown has announced that Mike Lockhart, a 6-foot-4, 302-pound, redshirt junior defensive lineman from Birmingham, Alabama, has signed a grant-in-aid and will transfer to WVU from Georgia Tech. He will have three years of eligibility remaining.