Eberly News

Each year, Eberly College honors faculty members with its Outstanding Teacher Awards, Outstanding Researcher Awards and the Award for Outstanding Outreach or Public Service. Recipients in each category receive a stipend to help further their research, teaching and service efforts.

PE Limited is extending its partnership with West Virginia University to ensure students and faculty in the University’s geology and engineering programs have access to the company’s advanced energy production modeling tools.

The company’s latest in-kind software gift — worth more than $6.5 million — benefits academics and research within the geology program at the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. “Our graduate students will be able to learn how to carry out state-of-the-art modeling of subsurface structures in a way that enhances their understanding of the Earth processes and better prepares them for their future careers in science or industry,” Jaime Toro, professor of geology. 

With World Book Day approaching on April 23, the founding director of the West Virginia University Center for Prison Education and Research says reading can be a lifeline for incarcerated people. 

Katy Ryan, Eberly Family Professor of Outstanding Teaching at the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, is available to discuss the impact of access to literature on those serving time in correctional facilities.

In her work with the Appalachian Prison Book Project, Ryan has helped ensure that more than 70,000 free books have reached people imprisoned in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Maryland since 2004.

To the casual observer, the fish doesn’t look like much. It certainly doesn’t look like a zebra, despite its name. It’s an unassuming minnow, small, pale and darting. But to Eric Horstick and his students at West Virginia University, it offers an incomparable, unobstructed view of the mysteries of human brains and behaviors.

WVU graduate students are advancing research with WVU Foundation scholarship support. Recipients of the WVUF Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship from Eberly College of Arts and Sciences include: Destinee Harper, Esha Azhar, Ciara Rodriguez, and Jailyn Wilson.

Isabella Linton, a senior in the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, is a Mountaineer from way back. Her family has deep roots in West Virginia, and she grew up in the house her grandparents built. Linton has turned a lifelong curiosity about the brain into meaningful, hands-on research. Through lab work and faculty mentorship, she has explored how maternal stress impacts development while building a strong foundation in scientific inquiry.

Neuroscience is about the human condition.” And for Kathleen “Katie” Morrison, an assistant professor specializing in behavioral neuroscience psychology in the West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology, the human condition is defined by resiliency.

West Virginia University physicist Subhasish Mandal has been selected as a member of the 2026 class of Cottrell Scholars by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

Researchers uncover why trees differ in how they record atmospheric radiocarbon, clarifying key uncertainties related to reconstructing past cosmic events and preparing for future space‑weather hazards.

“I’m scratching the surface of the secrets of nature, and it’s my job to make the math and the atoms sing the same song. One atom decides, ‘I don’t want to join with this other atom, I want to join with this guy instead.’ And it creates a beautiful pattern — a material with very beautiful properties. I just think, ‘Wow. I’m seeing something that nobody has seen before.’”