For the second year in a row, I highlighted the work of more than a dozen faculty members and a half-dozen undergraduate students for West Chester University’s 2014-15 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Annual Report. Gautam Pillay, PhD, WCU’s associate vice president for research and sponsored programs, first approached me in the fall of 2013 to write most of a 20-page report highlighting the research, scholarship and creative activities occurring at WCU, which has become the flagship university among the 14 institutions that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

Like the first such report, the second one ranged widely from hard science to the arts: from parsing out evolutionary clues found in hermaphroditic snails and developing chemical forensic detection techniques for new designer drugs to analyzing Greek statuettes, conducting linguistic detective work in Hispanic New Mexico and comparing the quality of guidance programs at rural vs. urban high schools.

To view the WCU annual report, click here.