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Healthcare Disparities Panel via Zoom
Hosted by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics' Diversity, Inclusion, Culture and Equity (DICE) Committee, in partnership with scholars at the Health Sciences Center, the Healthcare Disparities Panel aims to begin dialogues around healthcare inequities and disparities.
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Diversity & Society: New course encourages students to become comfortable with the uncomfortable
In a newly developed course, West Virginia University undergraduate and graduate students will have an opportunity to expand how they think about diversity, power, oppression, social justice and more. Diversity & Society, DSGN 493B, is open to all academic majors and there are no course prerequisites.
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What to Do If: You're Eating on Campus
Lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission by following this guidance for eating on campus.
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Invitation to Take a Survey to Help Inform Cancer Care
"We are proud to partner with the National LGBT Cancer Network! Out: The National Cancer Survey, the national survey specifically for LGBTQI+ cancer survivors. Take the survey & help inform cancer care for the estimated 81,000 LGBTQI+ people who are diagnosed with cancer every year. https://bit.ly/35LyPlW #outsurvey"
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Frisch Named to Review Committee for DoD Ovarian Cancer Research Program
Steven M. Frisch, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry at WVU School of Medicine, has been invited to be a member of the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program Review Committee, for an annual term, beginning September 01, 2020.
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Perseverance through adversity
Sloan Nesbit was finishing up his freshmen year at West Virginia University’s School of Medicine when on April 1, 2016 — April Fool’s Day of all days — he was diagnosed with T-ALL, T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma.
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Physical Therapy’s Swisher takes Mountaineer spirit to present at national APTA meeting
Crane lecturer Anne Swisher passed around a plush heart and asked attendees to think about something that made them excited. (APTA/Johnathan Bachman)
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POSTPONED — Consider It, Curb It or Cut It: Learn more about living tobacco- or vape-free
An information session and six-week program, "Consider It, Curb It or Cut It," has been postponed.
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WVU Cancer Institute researcher presents work in breast cancer at 2019 AACR conference
Linda Vona-Davis, PhD; Department of Surgery, presented her research at the 2019 AACR-San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on December 12. Her poster was visited by breast cancer survivor and research advocate Susan Siegel standing to her right. Cancer researchers are working for Susan and others battling breast cancer. Photo permission granted by Susan Siegel.
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WVU Cancer Institute in the News: Dr. Krista Pfaendler a recipient of 2019 Faculty Research Abroad Grant
Dr. Krista Pfaendler, assistant professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, will serve as principal investigator on a project aimed at enhancing multidisciplinary research collaboration and strengthening advanced level clinical and research skills of medical personnel from various specialties participating in the gynecological oncology tumor board in Lusaka, Zambia.
