Melanie Page

The Associate Vice President for Research Integrity, Security, and Compliance is responsibile for oversight of research integrity, security, and compliance activities led by the Research Office. As federal, state, and sponsor requirements grow in both scale and complexity, this dedicated focus ensures WVU maintains the highest standards of integrity, safety, and accountability in its research. Centralizing compliance oversight under a single leader enables the university to provide clear guidance, efficient processes, and strong protections for faculty, staff, students, and partners engaged in research.

Specific units that report to the AVP include:  Animal Welfare,  Human Research Protections,  Conflict of Interest,  Export Control, and  Research Integrity and Responsible Conduct of Research. Dr. Page is also responsible for research security training functions that are being developed.

Dr. Page joined WVU as the Assistant Vice President for Creative and Scholarly Activities in October 2013 after a 16-year career in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University where she was promoted to full professor in 2010. She is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at WVU. 

She has two main areas of research: first, the prevention of mental and physical health problems; the second main area of interest is teaching, mentoring, and scientific workforce development, especially for girls and women. Professor Page has participated as a principal or co-investigator on a number of NSF and NIH grants.

Degrees

• Arizona State University, 1998
  PhD Psychology, emphasis in Quantitative Psychology
• Arizona State University, 1994
  MS in Family Resources and Human Development, emphasis Child Development
• Arizona State University, 1991
  BS in Psychology (Summa Cum Laude)