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Emma Harrison

Student focused on prison education reform named WVU’s 23rd Truman Scholar

Emma Harrison, a  West Virginia University student who found her purpose through a college internship, has been awarded the Truman Scholarship, the country’s top award for students who aspire to careers in public service. 

Feeling disheartened after a meeting with his academic adviser in 1992, West Virginia University alumnus David Goldberg found himself walking the corridors of Woodburn Hall, pondering his future career path. He was surprised when then-Professor of Political Science Robert DiClerico approached him. 

David Goldberg was just one student among many Robert DiClerico inspired in his 45-year career at WVU, but it was that conversation that led Goldberg and his family to donate to the Robert DiClerico Scholarship in Democratic Institutions and Public Leadership.

The passion of politics

WVU alumni donate to Robert DiClerico Scholarship in Democratic Institutions and Public Leadership

Erika Kirby

Author, communication professor to give job talk April 18

Erika Kirby to speak on how communication in relationships helps or hurts work-life balance in second annual Seehra Lecture

Gregory Dudley

Microwave chemistry research heats up at WVU

Similar to how microwave ovens heat soup but not the bowl, researchers at West Virginia University are exploring the possibility of heating one solution component selectively over others in chemical reactions.   

As a critical component to the administration of justice, researchers are calling for more science in forensic science. Led by Suzanne Bell, chair of the West Virginia University Department of Forensic and Investigative Science, a group of academic scientists who were members of the former National Commission on Forensic Science’s (NCFS) Sub-Committee on Scientific Inquiry and Research are urging the larger scientific community to advocate for independent research and assessment in forensic science.

Researchers call for more science in forensic science

As a critical component to the administration of justice, researchers are calling for more science in forensic science.  

Ryan Claycomb

WVU creating pathways to flexible humanities degrees, careers

As West Virginia seeks to re-imagine its future both economically and culturally, new skills beyond technical training will be necessary to generate innovative paths forward.  

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.  

Brent McCusker

WVU geographer helps prepare for internal climate migration through new World Bank report

Internal climate migrants are rapidly becoming the human face of climate change, according to a new report from World Bank

Schuman Challenge Winners

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. 

Two students on the West Virginia University Debate Team have qualified for the National Debate Tournament for the first time since 1986. 

Only 78 debate teams from across the country qualified for the tournament, which was held at Wichita State University March 23-March 26, 2018. 

Brooke Modestita, a freshman women and gender studies major and Africana studies minor, and Ellen Baker, a sophomore fisheries and wildlife resources major in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, both had years of experience in debate prior to attending WVU.

WVU Debate Team members qualify for National Debate Tournament

Two students on the West Virginia University Debate Team have qualified for the National Debate Tournament for the first time since 1986.