WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Adam Baus

Job Titles:
  • Director, Office of Health Services Research / Research Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health

Adam Zundell

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Communications Director, College of Applied Human Sciences

Ajay Aluri

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director, WVU Hospitality Innovation and Technology Lab / Associate Professor, Hospitality and Tourism, John Chambers College of Business and Economics
Expertise Hospitality Innovation and Technology, Hospitality Information Management, Consumer Behavior, Hospitality Administration

Alfred P. Sloan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology

Amber Brugnoli

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President and Executive Director, Office of Global Affairs
Media inquiries should be directed to Katie Farmer, Communications Director and Marketing Strategist, Office of the Provost

April Kaull

Job Titles:
  • Director of News, University Relations / Communications.

Bob Britten

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor, Journalism, Reed College of Media
Expertise Media Literacy, Data Journalism, Visual Communication

Cassie Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Director, Communication and Marketing, School of Medicine
  • Director, Communications and Marketing, School of Medicine
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to
Expertise Heart, Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery Expertise Neuroimaging, Imaging, Memory, Mindfulness, Meditation, Wearable Imaging Devices, Compassion Meditation, Brain-related Research Expertise Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma

Chad Baker

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Adventure WV
Expertise Outdoor Education, Program Design, Challenge Course Operations, Outdoor Partnerships and Collaboration, Adventure Education

Charles T. Holland

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Expertise Natural Gas Production and Storage, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, Coalbed Methane Development, Improved Oil and Gas Recovery

Chelsi Baker

Job Titles:
  • Director Marketing and Communications, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to
Expertise International Strategy in Higher Education, Political Extremism, Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice, Interwar European Fascism, European Political and Religious Extremism, Comparative Anti-Semitism

Doug Arbogast

Job Titles:
  • Extension Associate Professor and Rural Tourism Specialist

Dr. James Berry

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair, Director of Addictions, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute / Associate Professor, Neuroscience, School of Medicine

Dr. Vinay Badhwar

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chair, WVU Heart & Vascular Institute / Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, WVU School of Medicine

Emily Garner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

George B. Berry

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Engineering

Gianfranco Doretto

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Gonzalo Bravo

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Sport Sciences / College of Applied Human Sciences

Guilherme Pereira

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Robotics, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Heather Carter-Templeton

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Department of Adult Health, School of Nursing / Associate Professor

Joel Beeson

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Reed College of Media
Expertise Virtual Reality, Social Justice Media, Virtual Reality Journalism

John W. Fisher II

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Law, College of Law
Expertise West Virginia Constitution, U.S. Constitution, Employment Discrimination

Jonathon Beckmeyer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to

Jorge Atiles

Job Titles:
  • Dean, Extension and Engagement, Director, WVU Extension / Professor, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

Joshua Brady

Job Titles:
  • Director, Mining and Industrial Extension, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Julie Brefczynski-Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor, Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine / Research Assistant Professor, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute

Karl Barth

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Kathleen Benison

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Geology, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise Geology, Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology

Kathleen M. Chiasson-Downs

Job Titles:
  • Lead Clinician for Addiction Services, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute

Katie Farmer

Job Titles:
  • Communications Director and Marketing Strategist, Office of the Provost
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to
Expertise International Students, Education Abroad, International Risk Management Media inquiries should be directed to Katie Farmer, Communications Director and Marketing Strategist, Office of the Provost

Kevin Orner

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil

Leah Smith

Job Titles:
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to

Lindsay Wiles

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Communications, School of Public Health
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to
Expertise Health Services Research, Health Informatics, Quality of Care Improvement, Practice Transformation, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Design and Implementation of clinical information systems for research, evaluation and quality improvement Expertise State and Local Public Health Policy, Health Insurance Policy, Policy Evaluation Expertise Long-term Care, Epidemiology of Aging, Health Systems Improvement, Occupational Health, Obesity

Madelyn Ball

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical

Matt Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Secondary Mathematics Education, College of Applied Human Sciences

Maura McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences / Center Director, Gravitational Waves and Cosmology Center

Moriah Katt

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical

Nasser Nasrabadi

Job Titles:
  • Director, Deep Learning Laboratory / Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Nicholas Castle

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Leadership

Omar Abdul-Aziz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Piyush Mehta

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Rakesh Chandran

Job Titles:
  • Specialist, WVU Extension Service / Professor, Agricultural Sciences, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

Tara Curtis

Job Titles:
  • Director, Communications and Marketing, WVU Extension
  • Director, Communications and Marketing, WVU Extension Service
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to
Expertise Destination Competiveness, Sustainable Tourism, Destination Management, Rural Tourism Expertise Housing and Community Development, Cooperative Extension, Water, Energy and Waste, Community engagement

Tara Scatterday

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Communications and Institutional Relations

Thomas Bias

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Program Evaluation, Office of Health Affairs / Associate Professor, Health Policy, Management, and Leadership, School of Public Health

Timothy Carr

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor of Geology
Expertise Energy Resources, Carbon Dioxide Storage, Environment-Friendly Energy Resources

Vlad Kecojevic

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Mining Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Wendy Holdren

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications and Marketing, School of Nursing
  • Media Inquiries Should Be Directed to
Expertise Health Informatics, Healthcare Innovation, Evidence-Based Practice, Information Literacy

William Brustein

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Global Strategies and International Affairs