Part-time college jobs don’t often include students working to address a WVU-wide pandemic response, but for 14 School of Medicine Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics students running more than 5,000 COVID-19 rapid response tests, it’s just another day at the office.
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In response to the pressing need to invest in public health and strengthen the public health workforce, WVU will establish a unified Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. The move is effective March 11.
With the return to campus for the WVU spring semester, an array of students are volunteering to help with COVID-19 testing for faculty, staff and incoming students.
Dr. Ankit Sakhuja, Nicole Kovacic and Amanda Shigle will speak as part of the Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, Feb. 19, at 8 a.m. This presentation titled "Albumin Therapy: Soaking Up the Evidence" will take place over Zoom.
Candidates for WVU’s dean of the School of Dentistry will begin the second round of virtual interviews today (Feb. 16). The University community is invited to participate in the presentation portion to meet the candidates, and links will be provided at least one day in advance of those sessions.
WV KIDS COUNT, in partnership with WVU Medicine Children’s and the West Virginia Department of Education, released an issue brief on the rising numbers of children and youth experiencing homelessness across the state of West Virginia. This issue brief, “Counting West Virginia’s Rising Numbers of Homeless Children,” discusses the need to address youth homelessness as a public health problem.