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WVCTSI at WVU one of 8 ECHO Superhubs in U.S.

WVU Today The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute Project ECHO program has been spreading specialty care knowledge across the Mountain State for five years. Building upon its success, the project can now lend resources and expertise to health providers beyond West Virginia with its recent designation as an ECHO Superhub — one of only eight in the United States and 18 worldwide. The Superhub designation means that WVCTSI Project ECHO, housed at West Virginia University, can offer outreach support, mentoring and training to health care providers and other ...

TCS awarded STEM Grant, offers Coding Workshop

Trinity Christian School was awarded a STEM Grant from the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) and will also offer a Coding Workshop this summer.  In March, Marcus Fisher, an adjunct teacher at TCS, submitted a proposal to SARA for a STEM Grant that provides a kit to build a hydrogen line radio telescope. TCS was selected for the grant.  The STEM Grant covers the necessary hardware and software for building a hydrogen line radio telescope that will be mounted on the school and used by the science classes. “Our computer science class is going to build the ...

The importance of conversation in women’s reproductive healthcare

MORGANTOWN -- The ability to have open, comfortable and timely conversations regarding women’s reproductive health can result in the treatment or prevention of health conditions sooner rather than later, local medical professionals say. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

Summer reading program receives $1.2 million grant

WVU Today West Virginia Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin  announced that West Virginia University Extension Service’s Energy Express program was  awarded more than $1.2 million to support literacy programs for West Virginia youths beginning in summer 2022. The award ...

Nursing students receive grant

“Mr. Doe” seemed pretty mellow when Jessica Ogaz popped into his room recently to take his vitals. “OK, buddy, let’s see how you’re doing with your BP,” she said, as fitted the blood pressure cuff over her patient’s arm. She pronounced the reading normal for the medical ...

Reseachers want to save salamanders

WVU Today  Two of West Virginia’s mountain-loving salamander species are wrestling for resources and space as climate change threatens their habitats.  Researchers with the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design have slithered in ...