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Macabe Keliher

History professor awarded fellowship from American Council of Learned Societies

Macabe Keliher, assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, was recently awarded a Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

Joseph Hodge

WVU Department of History receives American Historical Association grant to support career diversity initiative

West Virginia University is one of 20 institutions in the U.S. to receive a 2018 Career Diversity Implementation Grant from the American Historical Association (AHA) to support a career diversity initiative for graduate students in the Department of History.  

School of Social Work jumps to top 100 in latest U.S. News graduate rankings

The  School of Social Work at  West Virginia University shot up into the top third in the latest rankings of graduate programs by  U.S. News & World Report.

William Beezley

WVU Department of History to host 54th annual Callahan Lecture March 22

The Department of History at West Virginia University will feature author and historian William Beezley as the speaker for the 2018 Callahan Lecture.

As the world faces increased security challenges, West Virginia University aspires to raise awareness of human diversity and global security needs through a new collaborative graduate degree. The WVU Department of History has partnered with Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland to launch a new transatlantic Master of Arts in international history and security studies for fall 2018.

WVU launches new transatlantic MA in international history and security studies

As the world faces increased security challenges, West Virginia University aspires to raise awareness of human diversity and global security needs through a new collaborative graduate degree.  

Gwen Bergner

WVU's Eberly College announces 2017-18 Outstanding Teacher Award recipients

The  Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University has named four recipients of the 2017-18 Outstanding Teacher Award: Gwen Bergner, Ned Flagg, Krystal Frazier and Carrie Rishel.

Benedum Scholars

WVU's Benedum Distinguished Scholars to present public lectures

The four 2016-17 Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholars at West Virginia University will present highlights of their award-wining research in individual lectures this fall, beginning this week. All members of the campus and local community are invited to attend these lectures and the receptions following. 

Jon Butler

WVU Department of History to host 7th annual Sen. Rush D. Holt guest lecture Sept. 26

The Department of History at West Virginia University will feature historian and religious studies scholar Jon Butler for its annual Sen. Rush D. Holt Lecture Series.   

A number of students beginning their academic career at WVU are embarking on a journey that no one in their families have before, becoming the first generation of their families to earn four-year degrees. 

That experience comes with unique challenges for students as they make their way through an unfamiliar culture with its own language and expectations. How do I talk to my professor? Can someone help me understand the syllabus? If I need tutoring, is it free?

Take heart, though. We’re here to help. What’s more, a number of faculty in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences had the same experience. They too were once first-generation college students excited about the future, but anxious about asking for help and speaking up in class.

Meet Hal Gorby, teaching assistant professor of history.

First-Generation Faculty: Hal Gorby

A number of students beginning their academic career at WVU are embarking on a journey that no one in their families have before, becoming the first generation of their families to earn four-year degrees.

Parkersburg, W.Va. native Charles Beorn arrived at West Virginia University in 1959 for his freshman year of college with only one goal in mind—going to medical school. 

Beorn reflects that over the course of his career, the broad liberal arts education he received at WVU prepared him to manage his own practice and better communicate with patients. That liberal arts experience motivated Beorn to establish scholarships supporting the humanities and liberal arts.

New scholarships support the liberal arts

Parkersburg, W.Va. native Charles Beorn arrived at West Virginia University in 1959 for his freshman year of college with only one goal in mind—going to medical school.