Steve Bonanno has announced his resignation of dean and director of the West Virginia University Extension Service, effective June 30.
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Carolyn Long will return to West Virginia University Institute of Technology as campus president, WVU President Gordon Gee announced Monday (March 25). Long will return to lead the WVU Beckley campus on May 16, immediately after stepping down as interim chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.
There are common threads that run through three John Chambers College of Business and Economics faculty members who have been named endowed chairs: a passion for research and using the knowledge generated from their research in the classroom. All three have also created unique, experiential learning opportunities for their students that take them outside the classroom and into the real world.
In the 2019 Seehra Lecture, "Commuter Marriage: Women Negotiating Work and Family," Karla Bergen, an associate professor at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, will discuss her research on the challenges of women who initiate commuter marriage, with spouses spending the workweek (and sometime weeks and months) apart Sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of Communication Studies, the lecture will be held Thursday (March 28) from 4 -5:30 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room in the Mountainlair.
John Lonsdale, professor emeritus from Cambridge University, will discuss the depth and breadth of Kenyan history, periodization—beyond pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history— and why an ex-imperialist is lecturing on Kenyan history. The event will be hosted by the Department of History Thursday, (March 28) at 7 p.m. in the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room.
Take a break to feed yourself and a good cause at Iron Horse Tavern in downtown Morgantown Wednesday (March 27) from 5 – 11 p.m. Stop by and mention “Feed our Brains” when you pay your check. The restaurant will contribute 10 percent of your dinner check to fund the outreach program. to support WVU Neuroscience’s Feed Our Brains campaign.