Eberly News

Rock Flow Dynamics software gift to WVU advances geoscience and energy engineering education
West Virginia University students pursuing careers in geoscience and energy engineering will have access to industry-leading professional software thanks to a $26.8 million gift from Rock Flow Dynamics.
The in-kind gift allows students and faculty at the WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences to use tNavigator, a state-of-the-art reservoir modeling and simulation platform created by Rock Flow Dynamics.

Estep named director of Honors EXCEL Program
Clarissa Estep, teaching professor of political science and director of the International Studies Program, has been named director of the Honors College Experiential and Community Engaged Learning Program.

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

Gift from former Eberly College faculty member to benefit history graduate students
Graduate students in the Department of History at West Virginia University will benefit from a fund established by Charles W. Connell, former history professor and associate dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and Linda Jean Gardner, who received her doctorate in counseling psychology at WVU and was a former staff member of the advising center in the College of Creative Arts.
Katherine Johnson scholarship aids African American students pursuing math, science degrees at WVU
A new scholarship created as a tribute to NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson will benefit African American students studying math or science within West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

Gaps in the Iron Curtain
History alumnus Luke Gramith (PhD History, ’19) is the recipient of the nation’s top award for his dissertation research in Italian history.

WVU receives $8.2 million software gift from LMKR for energy geology coursework and research
LMKR, an international petroleum technology company, has partnered with West Virginia University to expand student and faculty access to industry-leading software.

WVU receives $2.2 million software gift from Petroleum Experts Limited
For more than a decade, geology students at West Virginia University have used the same advanced software used by oil and gas companies worldwide, expanding their marketability for industry jobs.
Training ‘ninja’ analysts
WVU alumni donate $25,000 to support student research
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.