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The “Year of the Renaissance” was proclaimed at Concord University during a Founders Day Celebration marking the institution’s 142nd anniversary. The event was held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 in the Main Theatre of the Alexander Fine Arts Center. Concord received its charter from the West Virginia Legislature on February 28, 1872.…
West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service is seeking growers to participate in a research project to determine the viability of regional hops production. The project is designed to help West Virginia’s farmers tap into an unmet and continually growing industry need. “We’re working to connect West Virginia farmers with the commerical production of hops…
Randa Nazem Al-Jayoussi, MD, a fellowship-trained and board-certified endocrinologist, has joined Cabell Huntington Hospital, Marshall Internal Medicine and the Chertow Diabetes Center at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Al-Jayoussi is an experienced endocrinologist who earned her medical degree at Jordan University in Amman, Jordan and completed residency training at Lincoln Medical…
The West Virginia University Disordered Eating Center in Charleston, W.Va. is joining the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) this week as it marks National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAwareness Week), Feb. 23 – March 1, in an annual campaign to bring public attention to the critical needs of people with eating disorders and their families. During NEDAwareness…
Several hundred health care students at Marshall University, including students at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine as well as the schools of Pharmacy and Physical Therapy and the College of Health Professions, are learning collaborative team skills through a series of interprofessional education sessions aimed at introducing them to team-based health care. “We…
University Healthcare and the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Eastern Division will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, commonly referred to as COPD. The seminar will be held on Tuesday, March 18 at 7 p.m. in the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center on the Berkeley Medical…