Faculty and Staff

West Virginia University is on the front lines of building leaders in the hospitality industry, thanks to a student-focused gift from a neighboring luxury resort and the family who has shepherded it to success.

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Dick Riley, accounting department chair and Louis F. James Distinguished Professor of Public Accounting, explains how accounting basics net big returns.

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Julian Givi, assistant professor of marketing, shares his research on what kind of gifts you should give to the special people in your life.

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Mark your calendars, Chambers College family! West Virginia University's sixth Day of Giving is March 22, 2023.

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Joshua Hall took the helm of West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics in August 2021, just in time for the opening of Reynolds Hall for the fall term. The 186,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art learning and research complex features experiential learning classrooms, a real-time stock ticker, computer labs, a 300-seat auditorium, atrium, study rooms, a cafe, green space and a fitness center. During Hall’s nine years at WVU, he has also held positions including professor, economics department chair and associate dean for research. He is also co-author of the annual Economic Freedom of the World report.

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Gentrification doesn’t erase drug crime and gun violence. Instead, research from West Virginia University economist Zachary Porreca shows that when one urban block becomes upwardly mobile, organized criminal activity surges outward to surrounding blocks, escalating the violence in the process.

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For Valentine’s Day, a holiday when anxieties about choosing the wrong presents can be high, a West Virginia University gifting expert is sharing lessons learned from his gift-giving research.

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Recent research by Julian Givi, an expert on gifting and WVU assistant professor of marketing, shows that while gift givers worry that digital gift cards might violate gift giving norms, recipients don’t mind getting them.

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