Eberly News
![West Virginia University is receiving the IDEAS grant to provide opportunities for underserved students to travel abroad. Two faculty-led, short-term study abroad trips in Jamaica and Wales (shown here) are planned for first-generation and RISE students.](https://csassets.static.wvu.edu/odz6cm/76e62361-f35b-497a-b6f9-987a5c6e3f3f/74f8d0105a8788eb0baf46e3089b2437/Study%20Abroad%20Feature-1200x800.jpg)
WVU awarded IDEAS grant to help more underserved students study abroad
West Virginia University is receiving the IDEAS grant to provide opportunities for underserved students to travel abroad. Two faculty-led, short-term study abroad trips in Jamaica and Wales (shown here) are planned for first-generation and RISE students.
![A leader in experiential education at WVU has been named director of the Honors College Experiential and Community Engaged Learning Program.
Clarissa Estep, teaching professor of political science and director of the International Studies Program in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, brings more than 15 years of involvement in the areas of service learning, professional field experience and education abroad to the position.](https://csassets.static.wvu.edu/o2p2e1/6ef5d620-e2a2-4d4b-a107-0048b510438c/d2133c9b3127e97c77d460a0658eafe8/Clarissa-Estep-1200x.jpg)
Estep named director of Honors EXCEL Program
Clarissa Estep, teaching professor of political science and director of the International Studies Program, has been named director of the Honors College Experiential and Community Engaged Learning Program.
![WVU College of Law alumna Ellen Archibald contributed more than $200,000 to support social justice awards at the College of Law and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences](https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/files/d/8ae7fc63-940f-44bc-b638-0fe73bc471ec/archibald-gifts-1.jpg)
Social justice gifts empower underrepresented WVU students to make a difference
WVU College of Law alumna Ellen Archibald contributed more than $200,000 to support social justice awards at the College of Law and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
![WVU Biology Professor Kevin Daly stands in his laboratory where he researches brain circuits. Daly was awarded $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation to expand his area of research.](/files/d7caf982-8c91-4659-9618-2b2b18fb4ac0/400x.webp?cb=9fba7b5187c9f70cc9c4b63df367f9aa)
WVU researcher making sense of brain circuits with $1.6M NSF grant
WVU researcher making sense of brain circuits with $1.6M NSF grant
Eberly College Welcomes New Faculty Members
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences welcomes to its faculty a group of educators and researchers from West Virginia University and institutions across the world.
![Approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students will receive degrees from Eberly College of Arts and Sciences during two graduation ceremonies held at the WVU Coliseum Sunday, May 15.](/files/d/501cc5e1-07ac-4b59-b1b2-3ef7c9f0d778/commencement-wave.jpg)
Approximately 1,000 students to receive degrees at Eberly graduation ceremonies
MORGANTOWN, W. Va.— Approximately 1,000 Eberly undergraduate and graduate students will walk across the stage at the WVU Coliseum on Sunday, May 15 during two commencement ceremonies.
![Albert “JR” Taylor and Amanda Tustin have been named 2022 recipients of Eberly College of Arts and Science’s Outstanding Staff Award.](/files/d/529acf08-7f24-4ce5-a306-d21bbb451524/untitled-1.png)
Eberly staff members receive 2022 Outstanding Staff Award
Albert “JR” Taylor and Amanda Tustin have been named 2022 recipients of Eberly College of Arts and Science’s Outstanding Staff Award.
English professor wins Juniper Prize for Fiction
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Associate Professor of English Glenn Taylor has received the Juniper Prize
for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press for his upcoming novel,
The Songs of Betty Baach.
Chemistry professor receives $500,000 from National Science Foundation to develop portable diagnostic devices
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A research project led by
Dr. Peng Li, assistant professor of chemistry in the Eberly College of Arts
and Sciences, received $500,000 in continuing grant funding from the National Science
Foundation (NSF).