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WVU Vice President Meshea Poore to lead Big 12 diversity officers

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Meshea L. Poore, Esq. is the new president of the Big 12 Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. Her term officially began June 1. “I’m honored to be elected to this position,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

WVU Cancer Institute to open center at Uniontown hospital

UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Cancer patients in Fayette and Greene counties will no longer have to travel to find the care they need thanks to a new partnership between the WVU Cancer Institute and WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital to open a cancer center on the second floor of the Annex Building on the ...

Scope of WVU health major broadens to include infectious diseases

MORGANTOWN -- As COVID-19 and its variants continue to spread throughout the country, workplace safety has taken on a new meaning. West Virginia University’s Master of Science in industrial hygiene, newly moved to the WVU School of Public Health, is designed to help students address modern ...

Carruth Center creating safe space

West Virginia University’s Carruth Center “strives to create a safe, diverse and inclusive environment, as well as a confidential space where students may seek support and process their reactions.”  The efforts of the Carruth Center are extended to sexual assault survivors in need of assistance on their path to trauma management and healing. WVU Carruth Center Director Dr. T. Anne Hawkins said Carruth Center counselors are well-versed on assisting sexual assault survivors. Counselors can provide trauma-informed care at the center, which is a necessary foundation to ...