Colenda Chosen to Lead West Virginia United Health System
FAIRMONT, W.Va. – The West Virginia United Health System Board of Directors has selected Christopher C. Colenda, M.D., M.P.H., to be the next president and CEO of the system. Colenda is currently chancellor for health sciences at West Virginia University. He’ll assume the new role in January 2014. WVU President James P. Clements is the [...]
Marshall Hosting Students From Eight Institutions for Biomedical Research Internships
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Twelve undergraduate students from eight institutions are spending their summer doing biomedical research in Marshall University’s laboratories. The students are participating in nine-week programs sponsored by the West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE) and the university’s Summer Research Internship for Minority Students (SRIMS) program. Dr. Elsa I. Mangiarua, a [...]
Stewart Jones Collects Second-Consecutive Track and Field All-American Award
Pueblo, Colo.—Wheeling Jesuit senior distance runner, Stewart Jones, earned his second-consecutive NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field All-American award after an eighth place performance at the 2013 NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Championships. On Friday evening, Jones approached the starting line for the final time of his collegiate [...]
Dr. Larry Rhodes Named Chair of WVU Pediatrics
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Larry Rhodes, M.D., who has served as the interim chair of the West Virginia University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics for the past year, has been named its permanent chair. He will also serve as the physician-in-chief of WVU Children’s Hospital. “We were fortunate to have had the opportunity to get [...]
WVU Extended Learning Evolves into Academic Innovation
To take advantage of and recognize changes in educational technology, West Virginia University is creating a new organizational structure to champion innovation in the classroom and provide a place for faculty to experiment with emerging tools, University officials announced today (May 21). The new division will be named Academic Innovation, and Sue Day-Perroots, who has [...]
WVU BOG OKs Initiatives Aimed at Improving Student and Community Livability
The West Virginia University Board of Governors Friday unanimously approved a new student housing master plan that will increase and modernize current accommodations on the Morgantown campus. The board also approved a $15 million upgrade to the Personal Rapid Transit system to improve its reliability and help ensure its viability as a major transportation system. [...]
WVU Names 2013 Class of Foundation Scholars
The goals are lofty – preventing hunger, increasing understanding, fighting disease, making life better for amputees – but West Virginia University’s newest Foundation Scholars, announced today (May 14), are primed and ready. “These young men and women are some of the most gifted young people West Virginia has to offer,” President Jim Clements said in [...]
Appalachian Traffic Fatality Rate Far Higher Than Rest of U.S.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Though the Appalachian region is home to less than 10 percent of the United States’ population, the region’s traffic fatality rate is 45 percent higher than that of non-Appalachian areas, according to faculty at West Virginia University’s School of Public Health. “The elevated traffic fatality rate in Appalachia was largely due to [...]
