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WVU Hospitals receives CON approval

WVU Medicine WVU Hospitals has become the first hospital in West Virginia to receive Certificate of Need  approval to move its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at WVU Medicine Children’s from Level III status to Level IV status. The designation will take effect later this ...

Checking the Oil

WVU Today People have been driving under the influence of alcohol since before the first person crank-started a Ford Model T. But CBD oil didn’t become a concern until years after people began driving the Tesla Model X. The widespread use of CBD oil is so new  scientists don’t ...

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 ...