Eberly News

Thirty-seven graduates were inducted as lifelong members into the WVU Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a national honor society that recognizes outstanding achievement in the liberal arts and sciences and champions freedom of thought. 

Research from a West Virginia University scholar of rural Appalachia shows how even the most marginalized communities can assert power and create change when they come together to form coalitions.

The Department of English within the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences has launched two undergraduate degree programs for students interested in pursuing careers as writers, editors or researchers.

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.

Amy Alvarez was an avid reader growing up. She still has the book from her childhood that sparked her love of poetry. It’s a collection of classic British poems from the 1800s and there was something about the language she found compelling, even at a young age.

The West Virginia University Higher Education in Prison Initiative (WVU HEPI) has been awarded two years of grant funding from the Sunshine Lady Foundation to support its Academic Leadership and Development Program.

West Virginia University has named Olivia Dowler, Sophia Flower, Rachel Johnson, Thomas Williams and Natalie Wonsettler the 2023 Mountaineers of Distinction, a Mountaineer Week tradition that recognizes exemplary academic achievement and extracurricular involvement.

It’s 7:00 a.m. and WVU graduate student Destinee Harper is dressing carefully for a day of teaching. Nothing too tight or see through, no open-toed shoes, no jacket, no cardigan or shirt with pockets. She wants to make sure she is allowed in the classroom. “I think that was a big part of that first week, was [sic] making sure that we were abiding by these rules, that they would let us in and that they wouldn't have a reason to say, no, you can't come in and learn in this space.”  

Twenty undergraduate students from across the University received the competitive national award funded by the U.S. State Department to travel abroad without financial constraints. Twelve of those 20 students are studying in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.