Graduate students in the Department of History at West Virginia University will benefit from a fund established by Charles W. Connell, former history professor and associate dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and Linda Jean Gardner, who received her doctorate in counseling psychology at WVU and was a former staff member of the advising center in the College of Creative Arts.
The Connell-Gardner Fund of $30,000 will support research activities of current students such as presenting research at conferences, attending symposiums and conferences, conducting oral interviews, reading manuscripts in archives and libraries and fieldwork. The fund will also support the recruitment of new students to the graduate program.