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2019 WVU Foundation Outstanding Teachers

WVU recognizes three Eberly College faculty members as Foundation Outstanding Teachers for 2019

Six West Virginia University faculty members have been recognized with the University’s 2019 Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching, which honors exceptional professors who go above and beyond to inspire their students. This year’s honorees are:

A West Virginia University industrial mathematics and statistics student is helping WVU baseball coaches improve their understanding of the strike zone.

Joseph Cuomo is a senior from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and a student manager for the WVU baseball team. Using the TrackMan radar system, which runs on a large radar panel installed behind home plate in Monongalia County Ballpark, Cuomo and the baseball staff collect data about pitches. The data ranges from pitchers’ extensions and release locations to pitch velocity and spin rate to the speed and location of where pitches cross home plate.

Batter up: WVU student improving baseball team’s analytics

WVU student improving baseball team's analytics

West Virginia University student Kylie Wilson is using her research on health campaigns to improve the lives of individuals who suffer from mental illness.

WVU student using trip abroad to further health campaign research

West Virginia University student Kylie Wilson is using her research on health campaigns to improve the lives of individuals who suffer from mental illness.

The Center for Resilient Communities is seeking current WVU students for its 2019-2020 Community Leadership and Social Action Fellowship. The year-long program will cultivate the next generation of leaders for social action in Appalachian communities and beyond.

Center for Resilient Communities seeking applicants for 2019-2020 Community Leadership and Social Action Fellowship

The Center for Resilient Communities is seeking current WVU students for its 2019-2020 Community Leadership and Social Action Fellowship. The year-long program will cultivate the next generation of leaders for social action in Appalachian communities and beyond.

 Five West Virginia University women have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English abroad next year. 

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program. Recipients are given a stipend to study, teach or conduct research while increasing mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries. This new cohort makes 64 Fulbright scholars for West Virginia University.

All the winners are from West Virginia. The 2019-20 scholars are: 

Jana El-Khatib from Hurricane
Kaley Hensley from Chapmanville
Karen Laska from Wheeling
Jordan Miller from Wheeling
Constantia Rhinehart from Elkins

Five WVU, Eberly College women named Fulbright Scholars

Five  West Virginia University women have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English abroad next year. 

WVU Undergraduate Mentorship Award recipients

Two Eberly College faculty honored with newly-expanded award for undergraduate research mentoring

West Virginia University’s Office of the Provost has announced the recipients of the 2019 Faculty Award for Distinction in Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, expanded this year to honor faculty members in four categories: behavioral and social sciences, biosciences and health sciences, humanities and the arts, and physical sciences and technology. 

Kassandra Colón, a West Virginia University student committed to improving cultural representation in the classroom, has been named the University’s 24th Truman Scholar, the nation’s top graduate fellowship award for aspiring public service leaders.

Focus on cultural representation in education leads to WVU’s 24th Truman Scholar

Kassandra Colón, a  West Virginia University student committed to improving cultural representation in the classroom, has been named the University’s 24th Truman Scholar, the nation’s top graduate fellowship award for aspiring public service leaders. 

Robert Maxon

Maxon named recipient of WVU’s inaugural outstanding graduate research mentoring award

Robert Maxon , professor in West Virginia University’s Department of History, has been named the recipient of the inaugural Faculty Award for Outstanding Graduate Research Mentoring for his work with PhD students studying African History. 

WVU’s new two-photon imaging facility to expand neuroscience research and teaching

WVU’s new two-photon imaging facility to expand neuroscience research and teaching

A new two-photon imaging facility at West Virginia University is expanding opportunities for neuroscience research in the Department of Biology and beyond. 

A West Virginia University heirloom seed expert is working to increase access to Appalachia’s heirloom seeds through a new seed preservation library.

Heirloom seeds are seeds grown by home gardeners and farmers prior to 1940s, before industrial agriculture became the more prominent model. They rely on isolation of plant varieties and have mostly stable genetics, allowing their seeds to be saved and stewarded year after year.  

Mehmet Oztan, a service assistant professor of geography, has created the Morgantown Seed Preservation Library in conjunction with the Morgantown Public Library, WVU Libraries and WVU Food Justice Lab. The seed library will be housed in the Morgantown Public Library beginning Friday, April 12.

WVU geographer establishes Morgantown Seed Preservation Library

A West Virginia University heirloom seed expert is working to increase access to Appalachia’s heirloom seeds through a new seed preservation library.