If you’ve seen Charles Wesley Godwin’s live show, you’ve heard Ross Justice. As front-of-house engineer and production manager, the West Virginia University alum and Music Business and Industry program faculty member is the conduit between the band’s onstage energy and what the audience feels in the room.
Following a national search focused on the academic future of West Virginia University, President Michael T. Benson is announcing the hiring of Beverly Wendland, an accomplished scholar and academic leader with wide-ranging higher education experience, to serve as the University’s provost and vice president for academic affairs.
A distinguished cohort of four West Virginia University graduates will be inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni in recognition of their groundbreaking achievements in business, communications and education. They are Michael J. Florio, Nitin N. Kumbhani, Mary Ellen Mazey and Morris Morrison.
West Virginia University professor Sam Zizzi, whose research wheelhouse encompasses motivation and health behavior change, says the motivation to start something new — like a New Year’s resolution — is not the same motivation that’s required to keep it going.