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Social work scholarship encourages students to give back 

WVU social work professor honored for mentorship

The School of Social Work at West Virginia University is working to overcome the shortage of behavioral health care providers in rural and medically underserved communities in West Virginia. 

WVU introduces new gerontology minor 

As children’s access to quality and accessible health care is in uncertain times, West Virginia University’s John D. Rockefeller IV School of Politics and Policy  is partnering with the WVU Health Sciences Center and WVU Libraries to host a Children’s Health Policy Summit: Understanding the People, Place and Policy Behind Health Care. 

Raised by a blue-collar family in Philadelphia, Pa., Turiano's father worked for Verizon, climbing into sewers and up telephone poles fixing phone lines for 40 years. Watching how proud his father was of his work and how he supported his family without a college degree, Turiano dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps. It wasn’t until later in high school when a friend convinced him to apply to college instead of working for Verizon.

Here are some courses sparking interest this fall

Poverty, food security, teacher shortages and public health disparities are among the many issues facing West Virginia’s future. 

Carma Korman, geriatric social worker at the Robert C. Byrd Clinic, has been named the 2017 Anita S. Harbert Outstanding Achievement in Aging Award recipient.