Our world is sick right now and the best thing for us to do is hunker down and help our health professionals get a handle on this sickness by practicing social distancing. That's the message football coach Neal Brown is preaching to his team regarding the COVID-19 virus.
A fashion designer stops creating clothing and turns her skills into making surgical masks. Cloth that might have been the mask for the Phantom of the Opera, instead is headed to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital to become a mask that protects a health care worker in the fight against COVID-19. This, and more, is how West Virginia University is putting skills and resources from its entire campus to battle the pandemic which has killed thousands worldwide.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice named Dr. Clay Marsh, West Virginia University’s vice president and executive dean for Health Sciences, the state’s COVID-19/Coronavirus Czar during a news conference at the Capitol Complex in Charleston on Thursday (March 26).
To further help in the effort to stop the spread, walk-in visits are discouraged. Patients should call ahead at 304-293-6208.
You might think social distancing and sheltering-in-place would improve environmental quality, but Nicolas Zegre, director of the West Virginia University Mountain Hydrology Laboratory, doesn’t foresee the pandemic lowering pollution levels in West Virginia.
Frankie Tack, clinical assistant professor and addiction studies minor coordinator at the West Virginia University College of Education and Human Services says that among the key tools for individuals in recovery, especially those in the early stages of the journey, are forming connections and establishing community. These tools are difficult to employ during a pandemic.
West Virginia University will hold a “virtual commencement experience” for graduates in May, then have an in-person celebration in December, the school announced March 25.
The pandemic put a stop to Hannah Steketee's Dean Acheson clerkship, but it was still a good experience, she says.
Beginning March 25, the former Creative Arts Center on WVU’s Evansdale campus will be known as the Loulie, Valerie and William Canady Creative Arts Center.
In this latest blog post, Vice President and Executive Dean for Health Sciences Dr. Clay Marsh writes about how we can turn the COVID-19 tsunami into a stream.