Women, Coronary Artery Disease Topic of Community Seminar

University Healthcare and the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Eastern Division will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on heart disease. The seminar titled Healing the Heart of the Family: Women and Coronary Artery Disease will be held on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 pm in the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences…

Capito and Manchin Announce Funding to Expand Pulsar Search Collaboratory at WVU

Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) applauded West Virginia University (WVU) for receiving the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontier Center Award. The award provides a $4,738,010 federal grant to leverage and expand the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) program, which is a joint project between WVU…

WVSU Extension Service Hosting Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service will present a workshop to help landowners properly maintain fruit trees Monday, March 30, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the WVSU campus orchard.  Pre-registration is required, along with a $5 registration fee. “This workshop will focus on the pruning of fruit trees and the traditional methods of…

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Hosts 27th Annual Research Day

Nearly 100 research projects and a keynote presentation focused on one of the region’s most pressing health problems, obesity, will mark the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine’s Health Sciences Center 27th Annual Research Day at Marshall University. The two-day research event begins at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, with a community seminar on obesity,…