A West Virginia University educator and the person who made his professorship possible will be honored by the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

The dedication of the Barnette Professorship in Political Science will recognize Curtis H.HankBarnette, whose generous donation to the WVU Foundation allowed for the creation of the professorship; and Dr. Joe Hagan, who has been named the inaugural Barnette Professor in Political Science.

Ceremonies will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in the Mountainlair Gold Ballroom on the Downtown Campus.

Remarks will be offered by Barnette, Hagan, WVU Provost Gerald Lang and WVU President David C. Hardesty Jr.

Barnette completed his undergraduate degree in political science at WVU in 1956, and then studied international law as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Manchester in England. He attended Yale Law School and received his JD in 1962.

He joined Bethlehem Steel as an attorney in 1967, where he held the positions of general counsel and secretary and senior vice president and director before being elected the companys chairman and CEO from 1992-2000.

In 2000, he joined the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden Arps as an attorney whose practice focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, arbitration, international trade and public policy.

Barnettes government service includes work with the Counter Intelligence Corps, the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps Reserve, the Presidents Trade Advisory Committee, and the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

He is a member and past chair of the WVU Board of Governors and served on the Eberly College Advisory Board. He also is a member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors.

Hagan is chairman of the Department of Political Science and director of the International Studies Program.

He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Drew University in 1974, graduating cum laude with high honors in political science. He continued his education at the University of Kentucky, earning a masters degree in 1977 and a Ph.D. in political science in 1980. He also spent time as a post-doctoral fellow at The Ohio State Universitys Mershon Center in 1980.

His research and teaching focuses on international relations and, in particular, U.S. and comparative foreign policy analysis. He has authored and edited several books

on ways leadership and domestic politics converge to influence foreign policy, and his writing has been featured in numerous academic journals and edited volumes.

Hagan received both the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award and the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, the two top teaching and research awards at the University.

He was a recipient of a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs at Harvard University, and served as program chair of the 1999 annual conference of the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C.

The WVU Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation that generates, receives and administers private gifts for the benefit of the University.

For more information, contact Dr. Rudy Almasy, Associate Dean of the Eberly College, Rudy.Almasy@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-4611.