Marshall University News

Marshall Jazz Ensemble Leaves for Europe July 4

Message posted 6/29/2009
Nineteen members of the Marshall University Jazz Ensemble will leave Saturday, July 4 to appear at two European jazz festivals. The group will perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the Jazz � Juan Festival in France.

Warner named College of Liberal Arts associate dean at Marshall University

Message posted 6/26/2009
Dr. Jamie Warner, associate professor of political science at Marshall University since 2005, is the new associate dean for MU�s College of Liberal Arts.

Marshall University Board of Governors approves tuition increase

Message posted 6/18/2009
Marshall University�s Board of Governors today approved a tuition and fee increase of $169 per semester for all full-time undergraduate resident and metro students for fiscal year 2009-2010.

WMUL student broadcasters win record number of awards for academic year

Message posted 6/17/2009
Marshall University students and the faculty manager from MU�s public radio station, WMUL-FM, received three Awards of Excellence and one Award of Distinction in the 15th Annual Communicator Awards 2009 Audio Competition. The winners were named Monday, June 8.

Marshall University�s Society of Yeager Scholars program receives $15,000 grant from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Message posted 6/16/2009
A grant of $15,000 from the Board of Trustees of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., will help support Marshall University�s Society of Yeager Scholars.

Marshall University�s College of Liberal Arts announces creation of new essay competition for undergraduate students

Message posted 6/10/2009
Marshall University has announced a new essay competition that pays tribute to former Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall and local Circuit Court Judge Dan O�Hanlon and gives all undergraduate students the opportunity to win up to $1,500 in prize money.

�Banjo Women in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky� on display at the Special Collections Department

Message posted 6/10/2009
�Banjo Women in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky,� a multimedia exhibit of photographs, text, and audio that celebrates the role of women in the development of banjo music in Appalachia, has opened in the Special Collections Department of Marshall University Libraries.

Cavalier named nation�s most outstanding collegiate radio sportscaster

Message posted 6/10/2009
Adam Cavalier of Montgomery, W.Va., a spring 2009 graduate of Marshall University�s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and a four-year member of the WMUL-FM broadcast staff, received two prestigious national broadcasting awards in early June.

Marshall University announces members of search committee established to select new athletic director

Message posted 6/4/2009
Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp has chosen 10 men and women to serve on the search committee that will select the university�s next athletic director.

Longtime administrator, professor Dr. Donna J. Spindel named dean of Graduate College at Marshall University

Message posted 6/2/2009
Dr. Donna J. Spindel, who has spent the past 33 years as a faculty member and an administrator at Marshall University, has been named dean of the university�s Graduate College.