Eberly News

Articles for the month of April 2018

Jesse Wozniak

The aftermath of conflict

WVU sociology professor studies post-conflict Iraq reconstruction

West Virginia University English professor Stephanie Foote has been named one of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellows for her work related to cultural production in and around the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which human activity has had a global effect on Earth’s climate and environment.

WVU English professor awarded prestigious Carnegie fellowship

West Virginia University English professor Stephanie Foote has been named one of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellows for her work related to cultural production in and around the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which human activity has had a global effect on Earth’s climate and environment. 

WV KIDS COUNT presentation

Plein co-authors WV KIDS COUNT brief on children's issues

WV KIDS COUNT, in partnership with WVU Medicine Children’s and the WVU Rockefeller School of Public Policy and Politics, released the second in a series of six issue briefs on the well-being of children and families in West Virginia. This issue brief, “Accounting for Enrollment Success and Considering the Challenges Ahead for Children’s Health Insurance,” credits West Virginia for its Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) outreach and enrollment efforts.

Ángel Tuninetti, associate professor of Spanish at West Virginia University, will exchange classrooms this semester with Paola Vera Báez, professor of culinary anthropology at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico, as part of a short-term faculty exchange program.

Taste testing: Faculty exchange program brings professor from Mexico to WVU

Faculty exchange program brings professor from Mexico to WVU

Macabe Keliher

History professor awarded fellowship from American Council of Learned Societies

Macabe Keliher, assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, was recently awarded a Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

Ashley Brash headshot

WVU student researching effects of reproductive politics on West Virginia women

West Virginia University junior Ashley Brash is researching the effects of reproductive politics on women in West Virginia.

Rodney Elliott

Air Force veteran wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

As a child in Texas, Rodney Elliott dreamed of going to college and studying science but it was a dream deferred because of family finances. He joined the Air Force and, after a 20-year career, enrolled at  West Virginia University gaining accolades, not just from his professors, but by winning the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering—the Goldwater Scholarship. 

Global Medical Dental Brigades

57 WVU students travel to Nicaragua to address medical needs

For the last nine years, the West Virginia University Global Medical and Dental Brigades groups have worked in collaboration with Global Brigades to facilitate work in Latin America. 

This summer, two West Virginia University students will study abroad as recipients of the highly competitive U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship.  

With the selection of Brandon Brown of South Charleston and Adam Craig of Wheeling, WVU will now have 30 students who have received this award since 2008.The Critical Language Scholarship is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity

Two WVU students awarded Critical Language Scholarships

This summer, two  West Virginia University students will study abroad as recipients of the highly competitive U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship.  

Brian Popp

Popp receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Brian Popp, assistant professor of chemistry at West Virginia University, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award.