The editors welcome the opportunity to work with the SRSA membership in areas of mutual concern. The journal, an interdisciplinary and refereed quarterly, was established in 1970 and focuses primarily on regional science, regional economic development, and related policy issues. This program, supported by the National Science Foundation, enables students from around the country to conduct research as undergraduate research fellows. Students also take classes in WVU's Honors Program, have a personal faculty mentor, and attend seminars designed to teach research skills. Course credit normally transfers towards the undergraduate degree from the student's institution.
Fellows reside in the newly remodeled Honors dorm.
In 1993, the Regional Research Institute was selected as the National Science Foundation's first Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site in Regional Science. The Institute creates learning opportunities and provides research support for its diverse group of faculty and students from nine departments. Continuing its long tradition of pioneering research, areas of research open to the student are economic and social development, environmental and resource policy, labor markets and poverty, migration and immigration, and methods of regional and spacial analysis. This program opens the door to graduate school and academic careers and is part of NSF's effort to train the next generation of research leaders. Women and minority students are especially encouraged to apply.