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WVU Alumni Sponsor White Coats for Medical Students
 WVU School of Medicine held its 2007 John W. Traubert White Coat Ceremony on March 16. This event was attended by 109 alumni and 20 faculty who served as White Coat Sponsors. Through their generosity our sponsors supplied monogrammed coats for the 106 members of the Class of 2009. In addition, each sponsor wrote a personal note of encouragement that was placed in each student’s white coat pocket.
At WVU, the White Coat Ceremony began in 1996 and serves to reaffirm the students’ reasons for choosing medicine as their profession. The ceremony provides a formal way for them to express their commitment to becoming a technically excellent and professionally compassionate physician.
 "Remember your commitment to character; the compassion that brought you here and the competency you hope to achieve."
- Peter Murray, M.D., class of 1985, Director for Education,
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
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Research Students Honored with Ceremony
 The WVU School of Medicine Research Induction Ceremony was held on June 1, marking an important step in the lives of our doctoral graduate students. This ceremony symbolizes the entry of these scientists into the process of research and discovery.
 This year’s guest speaker was WVU alumnus, Emily Morey-Holton, Ph.D., Pharmacology, class of 1974. She spoke to 26 students who have completed their core educational course work, identified their mentors, and are now entering their selected areas of research. Dr. Holton, considered a world expert and contributor to the understanding of the adaptations of the skeleton to space flight, has experienced a life long career in research at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.
Mentors and program representatives presented the students with white laboratory coats. Following presentation of the coats, students recited the “Affirmation for Scientists” which emphasizes scientific integrity and ethics. This oath, created by WVU faculty members, G. Anne Cather, M.D., C. Robert Craig, Ph.D., and James L. Culberson, Ph.D., will be recited for a second time by graduate students at their Investiture Ceremony.
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