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Recent graduate Oriana Ovide knew the Honors College was right for her from her first tour of WVU, with the great access to academic resources and tight-knit community. Oriana pursued experiences in undergraduate research from the beginning of her time at WVU, researching with WVU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, presenting at a conference with her research group junior year, and spending as summer researching with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD after being awarded a prestigious NSF summer research fellowship.

JoAnn Evans and her late husband Nick Evans.

Kevin Walden works in the Office of Undergraduate Research (UGR), working with students to help them explore undergraduate research and their future careers. A first-generation student from West Virginia, Kevin appreciates how important mentorship can be for students. “I think of myself and how I first came to the University, and I didn’t really know what I was doing. I just really loved having these advisors take an interest in me and they took it upon themselves to see that I would succeed,” Kevin said. “And I feel that is the role that our office plays for students.”

Want to earn an additional Honors credit this semester and learn more about an interesting topic? Consider adding one of these mid-semester book club courses to your schedule! Classes start the week of March 15-19.

In the course “Love in a Time of Affliction,” students will investigate, with the help of readings and media from various sources, how human relations (romantic, familial, friendship and social) are affected by, and how they can survive, during times of severe trial such as pandemics, oppressive political regimes, war etc. Through a discussion enriched by our own personal experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic, the aim of the course is to get to a deeper understanding of the nature of human relationships, and to strengthening our ability to cope with and respond to such times of trial.

CRN 18718

Tuesdays 1:00-1:50

(with apologies to Laura Numeroff)

By Olivia Dowler, Zack Enguita, Raafay Uqaily
With assistance from Colleen Good, Dr. Gooding, and Assistant Dean Clement

Language for Health Professions 

Join us to meet Dr. Jeff Freeman, WVU Honors College alumnus and our special guest.

Dr. Freeman is a member of the Senior Professional Staff in the National Health Mission of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which is the nation’s largest and longest-serving University Affiliated Research Center. In this role, Dr. Freeman serves in both management and technical positions as the Senior Scientist and Program Manager for the National Health Mission’s Prevention, Preparedness and Response Program. The mission of his program is to fundamentally transform the way the world prevents, detects and responds to health threats in all environments. Dr. Freeman also leads APL’s Disaster Response Corps, which enables APL staff and technologies to be leveraged in response to disasters and other critical events.