The West Virginia Healthy Start/Helping Appalachian Parents and Infants Project received a total of $5.47 million in continued federal funding for the next five years through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health. Healthy Start aims to improve health outcomes before, during and after pregnancy, and to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in rates of infant death as well as negative health outcomes in the first 18 months of life.
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School of Public Health students are collecting items for an Infant/Toddler Supplies Drive through April 17 to benefit The Shack Neighborhood House.
Each year, the Office of Admissions coordinates representation at high school scholarship award ceremonies throughout the state of West Virginia. This endeavor reflects our land-grant mission and the efforts were incredibly successful last year. Volunteers attended nearly 100 ceremonies and recognized achievements of over 1000 future Mountaineers.
West Virginia University’s inaugural Research Week (April 1-5) is more than a showcase of the work done at the state’s only R1 Research Institute; it’s a celebration of the faculty and students across campus who pursue ground-breaking research in all disciplines.
The WVU Libraries Research Commons is offering introductory workshops on software and sources to help you use data in your research.
Use of Large Databases in Research will be presented by Usha Sambamoorthi April 9 from noon to 1 p.m. Lunch will be provided to faculty who are pre-registered by noon April 2.