Eberly News
Paying it forward
Social work scholarship encourages students to give back

More than a mentor
WVU social work professor honored for mentorship

WVU Social Work program trains students to meet needs of rural West Virginia
The School of Social Work at West Virginia University is working to overcome the shortage of behavioral health care providers in rural and medically underserved communities in West Virginia.
Change never ages
WVU introduces new gerontology minor
Jay Rockefeller and Sylvia Burwell to keynote WVU Children’s Health Policy Summit Sept. 7
As children’s access to quality and accessible health care is in uncertain times, West Virginia University’s John D. Rockefeller IV School of Politics and Policy is partnering with the WVU Health Sciences Center and WVU Libraries to host a Children’s Health Policy Summit: Understanding the People, Place and Policy Behind Health Care.

First-Generation Faculty: Nicholas Turiano
A number of students beginning their academic career at WVU are embarking on a journey that no one in their families have before, becoming the first generation of their families to earn four-year degrees.

6 epic classes in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Here are some courses sparking interest this fall
Eberly College receives $60,000 for graduate education
Poverty, food security, teacher shortages and public health disparities are among the many issues facing West Virginia’s future.
Social Work alumna awarded Outstanding Achievement in Aging award
Carma Korman, geriatric social worker at the Robert C. Byrd Clinic, has been named the 2017 Anita S. Harbert Outstanding Achievement in Aging Award recipient.