Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

An ineffective “top-down patchwork” of regulations will not save the United States economy from the next big and inevitable financial crisis.

Future psychology students will continue to benefit from support from the Barry Edelstein Student Research Award, endowed this fall by a $50,000 gift from alumni Joe (B.S. Business Management, 1983; MBA, 1984) and Sharon (B.A. Psychology, 1984; MA Psychology, 1986; Ph.D. Psychology, 1991) Older.

Fast radio bursts, brilliant and intense flashes of energy that blaze for a millisecond and then disappear, have puzzled scientists for years, but West Virginia University astronomers are helping to find the celestial bread crumbs that will help lead scientists to answers about this mysterious phenomenon.

Policymakers, researchers and journalists alike will soon have access to roughly 4.2 million state government decisions in a single database. West Virginia University political science researcher, William Franko, a professor in the Rockefeller School of Politics and Policy, is part of a research team collecting every legislative bill, executive rule and judicial decision across all 50 states, some dating back to the 1950s.

A West Virginia University mathematics researcher has developed an algorithm to mobilize unmanned aerial vehicles in team missions.

From a race car driver to a puppeteer, the latest batch of West Virginia University Mountaineers crossed the threshold from student to college graduate today (Dec. 16) at the close of another academic semester.

A West Virginia University researcher is investigating links between child abuse and mortality risk in women. Co-author on a recent study linking self-reported child abuse to death in women, assistant professor of psychology Nicholas Turiano is investigating why childhood misfortune, such as child abuse, could cause deaths in women sooner than men.

When West Virginia University Provost Joyce McConnell got the call from the office of Governor-elect Jim Justice to co-chair his transition team alongside Marshall University Provost Gayle Ormiston, she didn't hesitate to agree.

The 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which claimed 28 lives - 20 of those children - motivated WVU professor Rachael Woldoff to investigate rural police officers' views on gun control. The study is called "Unpacking Heat: Dueling Identities and Complex Views on Gun Control among Rural Police" and is the first to explore gun control views of rural U.S. police officers.

Who better to tell a group of new college graduates to "reach for the stars" than an astrophysicist?