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• WVU Extended Learning evolves into Academic Innovation

  Wednesday, May 22nd 2013
  To take advantage of and recognize changes in educational technology, WVU is creating a new organizational structure to champion innovation in the classroom and provide a place for faculty to experiment with emerging tools.
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• First female WVU dental grad remembered by family and alumni

  Wednesday, May 22nd 2013
  Positive, confident, soft-spoken, patient. Of all the words the three grown children of West Virginia University School of Dentistry's first female graduate use to describe their late mother, there's one they agree speaks volumes about her character.
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• Diary of a Mountaineer: 2013 Commencement

  Sunday, May 19th 2013
  A Mountaineer remembrance of WVU's 144th Commencement: hugs, tears, laughs and mortarboards
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• Research at WVU: 'Black lung is back'

  Thursday, May 16th 2013
  One researcher at West Virginia University argues that coal mine dust exposure, which has caused an increase in the prevalence and severity of chronic lung diseases, is happening every day and deserves more attention.
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• Study: Appalachian traffic fatality rate far higher than rest of U.S.

  Thursday, May 16th 2013
  Though Appalachia 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.
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• WVU names 2013 Class of Foundation Scholars

  Tuesday, May 14th 2013
  The goals are lofty -- preventing hunger, increasing understanding, fighting disease, making life better for amputees -- but West Virginia University's newest Foundation Scholars are primed and ready.
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• WVU dental hygiene grad heading to Africa, starting business with classmate

  Friday, May 10th 2013
  Tyler Fleischer will don his cap and gown and say goodbye to his friends and instructors in the West Virginia University School of Dentistry's Dental Hygiene program. Though that journey is coming to an end, he will transition to an even bigger adventure -- one that will take him all the way to Africa.
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• WVU's Rhodes receives national rural health award

  Friday, May 10th 2013
  The Rural Health Practitioner of the Year award from the National Rural Health Association recognizes a direct service provider for leadership in bringing health services to rural populations.
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• 24,000 Hours: A successful 0.05 hours changed nursing student's path

  Friday, May 10th 2013
  From tears to cheers, this fast-track nursing student overcame her fears during clinicals - and already has a job lined up. This is the next story in WVUToday's 2013 Commencement project called 24,000 Hours.
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• Dental students receive awards for research

  Wednesday, May 8th 2013
  Four dental students in the West Virginia University School of Dentistry received awards for their research at the Dr. Clarence C. and Maxine Davis Cottrill Endowed Lecture.
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