Nine student doctors at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) will have decreased financial burdens following a luncheon celebrating their selection as Maier Foundation scholarship recipients.
A total of $50,000 was awarded for the 2024-25 academic year through the West Virginia Emulation Endowment/Dr. Olen E. Jones Jr. Incoming Student Scholarship awards. Since 2021, the Maier Foundation — a private, nonprofit charitable corporation based in Charleston, W.Va., that focuses on higher education — has challenged the WVSOM Foundation with an escalating scholarship match. The challenge grant required the foundation to raise funds for scholarship endowments or for current use. Upon completion of each challenge match, a matching contribution was made to the Dr. Olen E. Jones Jr. Scholarship at the West Virginia Emulation Endowment Trust to benefit WVSOM students.
“The Maier Foundation is one of our 10 largest donors. Including this year’s awards, we have been able to award 19 current-use scholarships totaling $150,000 to incoming students from the Maier Foundation,” said Donette Mizia, WVSOM’s executive director of foundation relations. “Additionally, the Maier Foundation, through the West Virginia Emulation Endowment Trust, has provided 24 scholarships totaling $69,100 since 2018. That’s 33 scholarships totaling $219,100 to date.”
Scholarship recipients for the current academic year were Emma Beatty, Morgan Christian, Dalton Coleman, Andrew Cook, Micah Hancock, Casey King, Margaret Ann Rice, Alexus Tygrett and Lukas Williams.
Morgan Christian, a Class of 2028 student from Barboursville, W.Va., said the scholarship funds will help her attain her goal of becoming a physician, since she is the first in her family to attend medical school.
“This award allows me to give more back to my community and to my home state of West Virginia and focus less on the financial burden of medical school,” she said. “Giving back to West Virginia residents helps keep us in the state so we can continue to help our population. Any amount of money helps.”
WVSOM President James W. Nemitz, Ph.D., said financial gifts made by charitable nonprofits are invaluable to medical students who incur large debts.
“Our corporate and business partners are the lifeblood of the WVSOM Foundation. Their generosity and enthusiasm keep us motivated. The Maier Foundation is a West Virginia-based foundation that is doing exceptional work throughout the state,” he said. “I am filled with gratitude that they recognized an opportunity to assist our medical students with alleviating their financial burdens, and that WVSOM has partnered with such an amazing organization for the past six years.”
A total of $50,000 was awarded for the 2024-25 academic year through the West Virginia Emulation Endowment/Dr. Olen E. Jones Jr. Incoming Student Scholarship awards. Since 2021, the Maier Foundation — a private, nonprofit charitable corporation based in Charleston, W.Va., that focuses on higher education — has challenged the WVSOM Foundation with an escalating scholarship match. The challenge grant required the foundation to raise funds for scholarship endowments or for current use. Upon completion of each challenge match, a matching contribution was made to the Dr. Olen E. Jones Jr. Scholarship at the West Virginia Emulation Endowment Trust to benefit WVSOM students.
“The Maier Foundation is one of our 10 largest donors. Including this year’s awards, we have been able to award 19 current-use scholarships totaling $150,000 to incoming students from the Maier Foundation,” said Donette Mizia, WVSOM’s executive director of foundation relations. “Additionally, the Maier Foundation, through the West Virginia Emulation Endowment Trust, has provided 24 scholarships totaling $69,100 since 2018. That’s 33 scholarships totaling $219,100 to date.”
Scholarship recipients for the current academic year were Emma Beatty, Morgan Christian, Dalton Coleman, Andrew Cook, Micah Hancock, Casey King, Margaret Ann Rice, Alexus Tygrett and Lukas Williams.
Morgan Christian, a Class of 2028 student from Barboursville, W.Va., said the scholarship funds will help her attain her goal of becoming a physician, since she is the first in her family to attend medical school.
“This award allows me to give more back to my community and to my home state of West Virginia and focus less on the financial burden of medical school,” she said. “Giving back to West Virginia residents helps keep us in the state so we can continue to help our population. Any amount of money helps.”
WVSOM President James W. Nemitz, Ph.D., said financial gifts made by charitable nonprofits are invaluable to medical students who incur large debts.
“Our corporate and business partners are the lifeblood of the WVSOM Foundation. Their generosity and enthusiasm keep us motivated. The Maier Foundation is a West Virginia-based foundation that is doing exceptional work throughout the state,” he said. “I am filled with gratitude that they recognized an opportunity to assist our medical students with alleviating their financial burdens, and that WVSOM has partnered with such an amazing organization for the past six years.”
During the school’s annual Day of Service on July 27, more than 260 first- and second-year students performed volunteer work at 16 locations in Lewisburg and other parts of Greenbrier County. At the Greenbrier Humane Society, students cleaned animal cages and walked and bathed dogs. They also installed signage along the Greenbrier River Trail and tended to a community garden at Montwell Commons. Volunteers also worked at several Greenbrier County churches, where they cleaned, painted structures and performed yardwork.
During the school’s annual Day of Service on July 27, more than 260 first- and second-year students performed volunteer work at 16 locations in Lewisburg and other parts of Greenbrier County. Students cleaned stables and leveled gravel at the grounds of the State Fair of West Virginia, organized books for an upcoming book fair at Greenbrier County Public Library, built planter boxes the West Virginia State Police will use to create a community garden, and assisted with parade direction, prize tables and games at the Williamsburg Community Fair, among other activities.
Students at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) started the new academic year by learning the importance of giving back to their community. During the school’s annual Day of Service, more than 260 first- and second-year students performed volunteer work at 16 locations in Lewisburg and other parts of Greenbrier County. Students cleaned stables, leveled gravel at the grounds and helped with other projects for the State Fair of West Virginia.
Students started the new academic year by learning the importance of giving back to their community. During the school’s annual Day of Service, more than 260 first- and second-year students performed volunteer work at 16 locations in Lewisburg and other parts of Greenbrier County. At the Greenbrier Humane Society, students cleaned animal cages and walked and bathed dogs.
Students started the new academic year by learning the importance of giving back to their community. During the school’s annual Day of Service, more than 260 first- and second-year students performed volunteer work at 16 locations in Lewisburg and other parts of Greenbrier County.
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It's orientation week for the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2028. One of the activities was a book discussion: "In Shock" by Dr. Rana Awdish. Several faculty and staff members joined with the students to discuss the book. It's great way to meet the students and start a conversation.
It's orientation week for the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2028. One of the activities was a book discussion: "In Shock" by Dr. Rana Awdish. Several faculty and staff members joined with the students to discuss the book. It's great way to meet the students and start a conversation.
One of the benefits of traveling across the state to promote WVSOM is the opportunity to visit our Statewide Campus offices.
On a recent trip to the Northern Panhandle, I stopped at the Northern Regional office in Wheeling to visit with Regional Assistant Dean Jane Daugherty-Luck, D.O.; Director Mary Beth Fitch and administrative Assistant Savannah Scott.
The office is located on 20th Street in the Maxwell Centre. It's a beautiful building and very near the Wheeling Fish Market, where we had lunch.
At the market, we met a couple who said their doctor was a graduate of WVSOM: Doug Midcap, D.O., who has a family medicine practice in the Wheeling area.
When traveling around West Virginia, you find so many WVSOM graduates and patients thankful for osteopathic medicine.
On a recent trip to the Northern Panhandle, I stopped at the Northern Regional office in Wheeling to visit with Regional Assistant Dean Jane Daugherty-Luck, D.O.; Director Mary Beth Fitch and administrative Assistant Savannah Scott.
The office is located on 20th Street in the Maxwell Centre. It's a beautiful building and very near the Wheeling Fish Market, where we had lunch.
At the market, we met a couple who said their doctor was a graduate of WVSOM: Doug Midcap, D.O., who has a family medicine practice in the Wheeling area.
When traveling around West Virginia, you find so many WVSOM graduates and patients thankful for osteopathic medicine.