Eberly News
![Gwen Bergner, an associate professor of English in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, has been named West Virginia University’s Harriet E. Lyon Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies.](/files/ef957c54-a4b8-4395-8eb4-3308d23faf6b/400x.webp?cb=acd27faa4402e923db71e5cf0c9a1443)
Gwen Bergner named West Virginia University’s Second Harriet E. Lyon Professor
Bergner will serve a 2-3 -year appointment as Lyon Professor, during which she will teach and conduct research as part of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.
![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.
WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative selected for Laughing Gull Foundation Award
The WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative has been awarded three years of grant funding from the Laughing Gull Foundation. This funding will support credit-bearing classes in a maximum-security Pennsylvania state prison.
![WVU chemist earns 2021 Young Investigator Award from Eli Lilly](/files/1c553ab7-3c8a-4d8c-9552-71a58f051aef/400x.webp?cb=186c90a91a6b245eaed24044b2aa1a43)
WVU chemist earns 2021 Young Investigator Award from Eli Lilly
Peng Li, an assistant professor of chemistry at West Virginia University, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Young Investigator Award from Eli Lilly.
WVU senior from Harpers Ferry named 2016 Udall Scholar
“Water is life. Keep it clean.”
Former WV Senator Jay Rockefeller establishes public service scholarship at WVU
West Virginia University students studying within the new John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics now have the opportunity to earn a scholarship also bearing the former U.S. Senator’s name.
WVU chemistry department receives $1 million gift from C. Eugene Bennett Family Foundation
Thanks to a recent $1 million gift, the West Virginia University C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry will now be able to explore its options regarding the modernization of the general chemistry laboratories.
WVU history professors' book recognized by the Organization of American Historians
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf, professors in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Department of History at West Virginia University, have won an award from the Organization of American Historians for their book, “Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie.”