The Office of the Provost and the Research Office invite the campus community to celebrate the high volume and caliber of West Virginia University research during the inaugural Research Week April 1-5.
The week will feature a series of events beginning with “Fulbright Day” on April 1, a celebration of the more than 30 WVU faculty and more than 50 WVU students who have been awarded funds supporting international scholarship projects by the J. William Fulbright Foundation.
The University will also welcome members of the press to campus April 1 for the Spring 2019 Academic Media Day, focused on WVU’s research on climate change.
On Tuesday April 2, WVU will host program officers from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This visit will center around two of the NAS’s recently-released reports: Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century and The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education. There will be two open forum events with the NAS representatives, one for faculty and staff (2:30 p.m., Erickson Alumni Center) and one for graduate students (5 p.m., Erickson Alumni Center).
The week will continue with events highlighting graduate student research, long-form scholarship, the array of support resources available to faculty and student researchers, and the exceptional research mentoring provided on campus.
Colleges, departments and other research-focused units are encouraged to co-brand their own research-centric events—panels, speakers, awards ceremonies, poster presentations—as Research Week events and to submit them to researchweek@mail.wvu.edu to be added to the developing Research Week calendar.
Questions, concerns or ideas for Research Week should also be submitted directly to researchweek@mail.wvu.edu.