Gwen Bergner, associate professor of English in Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, has been named WVU’s Harriet E. Lyon Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies, a professorship created to support faculty teaching and research across the University while enhancing curriculum in women’s and gender studies.
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The Department of History at Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will host its 11th annual Senator Rush D. Holt Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 22) in White Hall, G09.
Jason Gross, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has been named chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Eberly College of Arts and Science’s SpeakWrite program and the Eberly Writing Studio are hosting a write-in from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, in the Mountainlair’s Mountaineer Room. The write-in is a place for students to work on mid-semester writing projects and get feedback from writing studio consultants. Snacks and coffee will be provided.
The Arlen G. and Louise Stone Swiger Fellowship was designed to recruit highly competitive doctoral students to the University, students like Cory Bauerlien who began research at the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design this fall.
Anurag Srivastava, chair of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Statler College, is conducting research supported by two grants totaling nearly $600,000 from the Department of Energy.