West Virginia University will host Designing Across Divides: Co-creating Tools for Community Change March 28 - 30. The conference aims to move people past their differences to find common ground using best practices from the design field to improve participants hearing, seeing and community building skills.
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The West Virginia International Piano Competition and Festival will bring pianists from around the world to Morgantown March 22–24. Twenty-seven semifinalists from China, Canada, Russia, Korea, Vietnam and the United States will perform in the competition portions of the festival. More than $10,000 in prize money is up for grabs, as well as concert engagements.
In recognition of Head Injury Awareness Month, Stephen Heck, Injury Control Research Center student affiliate and School of Public Health Ph.D. candidate, presents a webinar titled "Caring for Those with Combat Wounds."
The WVU School of Pharmacy is in the top five schools of pharmacy for match rates — pairing 87 percent of the postgraduate year one applicants seeking residency through Phase I of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Resident Matching Program. In addition, the School surpassed last year’s numbers for most students pursuing a residency in history.
John Campo, chief behavioral wellness officer at WVU and the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and his colleagues are working to fill a gap in analyzed suicide trends among 10- to-18-year-olds. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among this group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but no studies to date addressed a large subset of the population: Medicaid recipients.
West Virginia University researchers are exploring new ways to promote their work at the intersection of art and science. Mina Aziziha, a physics Ph.D. student, was a finalist in the 2019 Intermag-Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference's Magnetism as Art contest in Washington, D.C.