Alumni Spotlight

Matt Ballard

President and CEO of the Charleston Area Alliance, Charleston, W.Va.

Ballard earned a master’s of public administration (MPA) with a concentration in health care administration from WVU in 2001 after receiving a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Alderson Broaddus College in 1999. Today, he is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Charleston Area Alliance,.. Read more...

Don Brodie

Co-owner of Purolite Company Bala Cynwyd, Pa.

I earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1969, and worked as quality control manager for the National Sugar Company, a manufacturer of cane sweeteners, in Philadelphia, Pa., and the A.E. Staley Company, a manufacturer of corn sweeteners and corn starch, in Morrisville, Pa. Soon after, I worked at Sybron Chemical, a manufacturer of ion exchange resins and polymers in Birmingham, N.J.,. Read more..

Stan Cavendish

Former President of Verizon, West Virginia

Stan Cavendish believes the future of the state’s economic growth is directly linked to its ability to create a more universal approach to education that has led him to develop several partnerships among higher education, government, and private sectors Read more..

Rawnette Murray

Staff Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Labor
Arlington, Va.

As an undergraduate, I was on a career path geared toward the field of medicine. I earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1993 under a competitive Storer Scholarship, and completed two years at WVU’s School of Medicine as a recipient of the W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship.
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Asra Q. Nomani

Professional Journalist and Commentator
Washington, DC

Asra Q. Nomani, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal for 15 years, is the author of Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam.
In August 2007, she became a visiting scholar in the practice of journalism at Georgetown University, leading the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Read more...

Steve Shreve

Orion Hoch Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, Oakmont, Pa.

I graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in German with a minor in mathematics from WVU in 1972. I went on to study mathematics at George-August-Universitat in Gottingen, Germany, and earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois. My education at Eberly prepared me for a career in academic mathematics, where formulating and solving meaningful problems is paramount, but exposition and human interaction are necessary. Read more...