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Noted researcher and academic leader to present WVU School of Nursing’s Kandzari Lecture

The WVU School of Nursing welcomes a well-known, respected researcher and nursing leader to present the Judy C. Kandzari Memorial Lectureship on Friday, April 15, 2016, in Fukushima Auditorium at the WVU Health Sciences Center, beginning at 7 p.m. The School will also honor academic achievements of student scholars, as well as recognize students, faculty and community leaders with induction into Sigma Theta Tau International – Alpha Rho Chapter nursing honorary immediately following the lecture. 

WVU students head to McDowell County to offer health screenings

West Virginia University students are tireless in their efforts to give back to their communities. These service learning opportunities also provide valuable resources to those communities. Several WVU Pharmacy and Nursing students are heading to McDowell County, West Virginia, to participate in the Southside K-8 School’s back-to-school community social for residents of the area.

WVU School of Nursing receives nearly $1.4 million HRSA grant

A team of healthcare professionals at West Virginia University, led by Joanne Duffy, Ph.D., R.N., endowed professor of the WVU School of Nursing, is working together to reduce complications and improve health outcomes in older adults and cardiac surgery patients in rural West Virginia.

WVU doc student passionate about helping West Virginians combat skin cancer

For Amy Bruce, skin cancer is personal. In April 2013 she lost a friend, instructor and co-worker to skin cancer. “It was a terrible situation; she was young. She had a mole on her back, and by the time she had it looked at, it had already spread. It’s a deadly form of cancer that moves quickly. She left behind a family, including three small children.”