Eberly News
Articles for the month of December 2025
Faculty Feature: Becca Coltogirone from the Department of Biology
Becca Coltogirone, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology who also serves as an academic advisor and director of the undergraduate neuroscience program in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected for the December Faculty Feature.
Native American Studies Panel Presentation on Native Leadership & Contemporary Issues
Four Native American Studies students will discuss their research and experiences in this semester's NAS Directed Study course "Native Leadership and Contemporary Issues."
Eberly Writing Studio and SpeakWrite share fall newsletter
Discover how the Eberly Writing Studio and Speakwrite support students in becoming stronger writers and communicators, learn about the Appalachian Scholars Contest and more.
Click, Whirr: Inside the mind of a computational quantum physicist
“I’m scratching the surface of the secrets of nature, and it’s my job to make the math and the atoms sing the same song. One atom decides, ‘I don’t want to join with this other atom, I want to join with this guy instead.’ And it creates a beautiful pattern — a material with very beautiful properties. I just think, ‘Wow. I’m seeing something that nobody has seen before.’”
University researchers study how ‘chemical warfare’ beneath the soil shapes forests
To help forests respond to a changing climate, WVU biologists are learning how bacteria and fungi in the soil sustain the health of forest ecosystems. Fungi that have close symbiotic relationships with tree roots are called “mycorrhizae,” and Ember Morrissey, associate professor in the Department of Biology at the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, is studying how two main types of mycorrhizal fungi interact with their host trees and other soil microorganisms.