ADMINISTRATION James P. Clements, PhD, President, West Virginia University Michele Wheatly, PhD, Provost Robert Jones, PhD, Dean Joan Gorham, EdD, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Contents IN THIS ISSUE
2 Around the College 2 Don’t Ground Your Child 4 Teaching the Teachers
Valérie Lastinger, PhD, Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
5 What’s in a Name?
Asuntina Levelle, JD, Associate Dean, Financial Planning and Management
6 West Virginia University Hosts Electronic Book
L. Christopher Plein, PhD, Associate Dean
7 Where in the World is Bob Jones?
Katie Stores, PhD, Assistant Dean for Research
8 Understanding Wartime Atrocities
Bonnie Fisher, Director of Development EDITORIAL STAFF Rebecca Herod, Executive Editor Kathy Deweese, University Editor
Review
10 Vox Populi 10 Research Around the World: Taking It to the 13 Research Buzz
16 The Roll of Thunder
Angela Caudill
22 The Research University Rise
Graham Curry
24 Southern Exposure
Lindsey Estep
30 Science Fair: Equal Opportunities for
Alayna Lemmer Chris Schwer 1985-2012
Women in STEM
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
34 The Plant Library
John Bolt
38 MARS Mission
Kathy deGraaf Grace Drnach
44 New and Notable
Gerrill Griffith
44 Unifying Moundsville
Jared Lathrop
46 Good Reads
Diana Mazzella Ashleigh Pollart
50 Headed Toward the Stars
Lindsay Willey
52 REN@WVU Training a New Generation of
PHOTOGRAPHY M.G. Ellis, Senior Photojournalist Brian Persinger, Senior Photojournalist Jake Lambuth, Student Photographer
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50 Awards and Honors
Christine Schussler Cody White
Kathy deGraaf gives us the “Research Buzz.”
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ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Forrest Conroy
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Graduate Students 54 Tiny Kernels of Truth 56 The Elusive Chimera 58 Working at the Molecular Level
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