Eberly News
Record number of WVU students receive Fulbright Scholarships
A record number of West Virginia University students have been named Fulbright Scholars this year, doubling the previous record of five.
Four WVU, Eberly College students to study abroad as Boren scholars
Four West Virginia University students have been awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship and will spend a year immersed in the language and culture of countries that have been identified as critical to U.S. interests.

Taste testing: Faculty exchange program brings professor from Mexico to WVU
Ángel Tuninetti, chair of the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and associate professor of Spanish at West Virginia University, will exchange classrooms this semester with Paola Vera Báez, professor of culinary anthropology at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico, as part of a short-term faculty exchange program.
Air Force veteran wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
As a child in Texas, Rodney Elliott dreamed of going to college and studying science but it was a dream deferred because of family finances. He joined the Air Force and, after a 20-year career, enrolled at West Virginia University gaining accolades, not just from his professors, but by winning the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering—the Goldwater Scholarship.
57 WVU students travel to Nicaragua to address medical needs
For the last nine years, the West Virginia University Global Medical and Dental Brigades groups have worked in collaboration with Global Brigades to facilitate work in Latin America.

Two WVU students awarded Critical Language Scholarships
This summer, two West Virginia University students will study abroad as recipients of the highly competitive U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship.

WVU Eberly College announces 2018 Outstanding Staff Award recipients
The West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences has named four recipients of its 2018 Outstanding Staff Award: Andrea Bebell, Allen Burns, Selena Engebretson and Christopher Ramezan.
WVU students win 2018 Schuman Challenge in Washington, D.C.
Student representatives from West Virginia University have won the European External Action Service’s 2018 Schuman Challenge, the second edition of a foreign policy contest for undergraduate students held in Washington, D.C.
Di Bartolomeo named a 2018-2019 American Council on Education Fellow
Lisa Di Bartolomeo, a professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and senior adviser in the Office of Global Affairs, has been named a Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year by the American Council on Education.

Going the distance: WVU students travel to Galapagos Islands for Model UN competition
WVU students travel to Galapagos Islands for Model United Nations conference