Meet Dr. Melanie Page – Director

With a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from Arizona State University, Page serves as the associate vice president for creative and scholarly activity and is a professor in the Department of Psychology at West Virginia University. She assumed the directorship of the West Virginia NASA Space Grant Consortium and EPSCoR programs in August 2021. 

Page’s academic career started as an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University where she was promoted to full professor in 2010. Page participated as a principal or co-investigator on a number of NSF and NIH grants. She joined WVU as the assistant vice president for creative and scholarly activities in October 2013. 

Page’s primary responsibility is to facilitate the success of faculty in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in achieving greater external support and recognition for their creative and scholarly work. She leads the development of projects that incorporate faculty from various colleges to address state, regional, national and international issues while increasing recognition for the University in faculty scholarship. 

Before her role as director, Page served on the WV NASA Space Grant and EPSCoR Board for eight years. In her current director role, she has participated as a major partner in a NASA SciAct proposal, started a partnership with Mary C. Snow elementary school to increase students’ science proficiency and diversity in STEM, hosted a NASA EPSCoR funded Hack Week, and served on the executive committees of the national NASA Space Grant and EPSCoR councils.