Eberly News

Articles for the month of September 2018

ocial workers at West Virginia University are leading the way in opioid treatment and prevention in West Virginia, where overdose rates are the highest in the U.S. 

The WVU School of Social Work has received 2018 Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training supplemental funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration to support these efforts.

School of Social Work receives federal funding to address opioid addiction

Social workers at West Virginia University are leading the way in opioid treatment and prevention in West Virginia, where overdose rates are the highest in the U.S. 

Could changing the focus of leadership studies from the leader to the follower produce more substantial gains within the discipline? 

Lisa DeFrank-Cole, director of the Leadership Studies Program at West Virginia University, is looking at the field in a new light. 

DeFrank-Cole recently published an edited book with Sherylle Tan, director of internships and research at the Kravis Leadership Institute, called “Women’s Leadership Journeys.” The book brings together research from leading scholars with stories from women leaders in diverse sectors to provide insights from their leadership journeys.

Thinking ‘follower first’: A new approach to leadership studies

Could changing the focus of leadership studies from the leader to the follower produce more substantial gains within the discipline?

Claire Vaye Watkins

Watkins to give reading as Virginia Butts Sturm Writer-in-Residence

Author Claire Vaye Watkins will give a reading as the 2018 Virginia Butts Sturm Writer-in-Residence at West Virginia University. She will read on Monday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room of the WVU Downtown Library. In addition to her reading, which is free and open to the public, she will work with WVU creative writing students for the week. 

WVU team to promote women’s empowerment in Mexico through soccer

WVU team to promote women’s empowerment in Mexico through soccer

Concerns about women’s empowerment are a public health and policy issue in the U.S., Mexico and throughout the world. Using the sport of soccer, a West Virginia University team aims to enhance young women’s empowerment through leadership development.  

A West Virginia University astronomer is working to locate the origin of fast radio bursts coming from outside the Milky Way Galaxy. 

Sarah Burke-Spolaor, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has accepted a distinguished fellowship with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Azrieli Global Scholars Program. She will pursue her research as one of 12 members of the 2018 Global Scholars cohort. Three of these individuals will join CIFAR’s Gravity and the Extreme Universe program.

WVU astronomer to study the “extreme universe” with international team

A West Virginia University astronomer is working to locate the origin of fast radio bursts coming from outside the Milky Way Galaxy.

Geology grad receives GeoCUR Award for Outstanding Research

Geology grad receives GeoCUR Award for Outstanding Research

Alumna Holly Pettus (BS Geology, 2018) is among 15 undergraduate students from universities across the nation to be recognized for her outstanding research with the 2018 GeoCUR Award for Excellence in Student Research. Her research focused on investigating the origin of potassium feldspar (K-feldspar) megacrysts from a small granitoid intrusion in western Nevada. 

Could graduate students’ religious beliefs impede their ability to gain confidence as scientists? A West Virginia University sociologist is exploring the conflicts between graduate students’ religious and professional identities and how those conflicts influence their career goals.

Religion vs. science: Shaping graduate students’ identities

Could graduate students’ religious beliefs prevent them from gaining confidence as scientists? A West Virginia University sociologist is exploring the conflicts between graduate students’ religious and professional identities and how those conflicts influence their career goals.  

Walk for Justice participant

Appalachian Prison Book Project to host Walk for Justice

WVU student organization advocates for more educational opportunities and materials in prisons through new event

Among the lions and zebras in Tanzania in the summer heat, a West Virginia University environmental geoscience student explored the geography of the land. 

Weirton, West Virginia, native Francesca Basil (BA Environmental Geoscience, 2018) traveled to the East African country with support from the Eberly College of Arts and Science’s Academic Enrichment Program.

Environmental geoscience student explores Tanzania through Eberly College Academic Enrichment Fund

Environmental geoscience student explores Tanzania through Eberly College Academic Enrichment Fund