Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Candidates for West Virginia University’s 2017 Homecoming court have been selected.

Emily Bausher, a student in the geology master of science program at West Virginia University, and her adviser, associate professor of geology Dorothy Vesper, are measuring the quantity and quality of the water along Peters Mountain in Monroe County in collaboration with the Indian Creek Watershed Association.

West Virginia University professors Paul Ziemkiewicz, Shikha Sharma and Tim Carr will present research on technology in the shale industry at the Shale Insight Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 27 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A program-building coach who has won 819 basketball games, a retired liaison for Black Student Concerns who took special interest in African and African American students, faculty and staff, a former Arts & Entertainment student program advisor who trained hundreds of student staff to run “front of house” activities and a man who guided the Daily Athenaeum through a period of exceptional growth will be honored by the West Virginia University Division of Student Life.

The four 2016-2017 Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholars will present highlights of their award-winning research in individual lectures this fall, beginning this week. All members of the campus and local community are invited to attend these lectures and the receptions following.

Biology students at West Virginia University are studying the impact of climate change on the forests of the Appalachian Mountains. Justin Mathias and Nanette Raczka, Ph.D. students in the Department of Biology, have received Smithsonian Center for Tropical Forest Science-ForestGEO grants to support their research.

As the second-oldest state in the nation, West Virginia is in dire need for professionals who can work with its aging population.

The Native American Studies Program at West Virginia University welcomes the public to its annual Peace Tree Ceremony Oct. 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. While the peace tree is located between Martin and Elizabeth Moore halls, this year's ceremony will take place in the Mountainlair Student Union's Blue Ballroom due to forecasted rain.

Just one year after arriving at West Virginia University, physicist Lian Li is taking physics research to new frontiers. In collaboration with fellow WVU condensed matter experiment expert Cheng Cen, he is breaking the rules of classical physics in search of a solution to making computers faster than ever.

Stephanie Foote is the first West Virginia University faculty member to be chosen for a National Humanities Center Fellowship. Foote is in residence at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina, for the 2017-18 academic year while working on her book about waste. In “The Art of Waste: Narrative, Trash, and Contemporary Culture,” Foote plans to examine the role of garbage in narrating the relationship of American culture to environmental crisis.