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![WVU alumna awarded Rangel Fellowship to pursue foreign service career](/files/25fca76a-7cdc-4e49-b9e2-a89d7e74ecd9/400x.webp?cb=6767881b907f61c0908af3c251e35611)
WVU alumna awarded Rangel Fellowship to pursue foreign service career
West Virginia University alumna and global citizen Giana Loretta is a recipient of the prestigious Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship.
![Shaping future geologists: WVU alumni couple provides opportunities through field experience](/files/aabd23e8-fa59-4984-b56e-35447acf7b23/400x.webp?cb=c7debf4e4d1865cd1f41a2444476b182)
Shaping future geologists: WVU alumni couple provides opportunities through field experience
Ohio native Dan Billman has always been science-minded and had a fascination with rocks. Growing up on Lake Erie furthered his interest in rock formations, but it was a family friend and freshwater biologist who inspired Billman to pursue a career in geology.
![MFA English Alumn and Author Sarah Beth Childers writes ‘Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss’](/files/ee249dc0-3a7e-4745-9b83-cf8aced67d0e/400x.webp?cb=df1ef86176eae3d81fc45889c96712c3)
MFA English Alumn and Author Sarah Beth Childers writes ‘Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss’
In “Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss,” Childers tells a story of love, loss, grief and reckoning with catalysts both internal and external that compelled her beloved brother to live a life outside their family’s norms – and then take that life as an escape from the world where he was sometimes a full-blown participant and at other times a reluctant player.
![WVU College of Law alumna Ellen Archibald contributed more than $200,000 to support social justice awards at the College of Law and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences](https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/files/d/8ae7fc63-940f-44bc-b638-0fe73bc471ec/archibald-gifts-1.jpg)
Social justice gifts empower underrepresented WVU students to make a difference
WVU College of Law alumna Ellen Archibald contributed more than $200,000 to support social justice awards at the College of Law and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences