FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

General faculty meeting includes State of the University address
by President Kopp, introduction of 72 new faculty

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s fall general faculty meeting, which includes President Stephen J. Kopp’s State of the University address, takes place at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept.  28 in the Playhouse of the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on the Huntington campus.

The agenda consists of welcoming remarks by Dr. Larry Stickler, chair of the faculty senate; singing of the Star Spangled Banner by Derek Gwinn, associate athletic director for compliance; introduction of 72 new faculty by Dr. Sarah Denman, provost/senior vice president for academic affairs, and Dr. Gretchen Oley, senior associate dean for clinical affairs; Kopp’s address; and a State of the Faculty address by Stickler.

New faculty to be introduced are:

College of Education & Human Services – Lisa Burton, Tina Cartwright, Debra Conner, Barbra Haptonstall and Cheryl Jeffers.

College of Fine Arts – Maribea Woodington Barnes, Jeffrey Pappas and Robert Wray.

College of Health Professions – Melanie Akers, Chanin Boyle, Charles Hossler and Amy Knell.

College of Information Technology & Engineering – Andrew Nichols.

College of Liberal Arts – Ryan Angus, Massimo Bardi, Keith Bell, Linda Cole, Christina Franzen, Brian Hoey, Walter Iriarte, Jason Mornissette, Neal Stidham, Laura Wadley and Jun Zhao.

College of Science – Brian Antonsen, Maria Babiuc-Hamilton, Xiaojuan Fan, Duane Farnsworth, Mohammad Itani, Greg Kuhn, Howard Richards, Jennifer Shell, Wendy Trzyna, Bin Wang and Xiangqian Zhou.

Elizabeth McDowell Lewis College of Business – Dick Drass, Raymond Keener, David Spudich and Weishen Wang.

Marshall University Graduate College – Mindy Allenger, Jeanette Lee-Farmer, Yetunde Shobo and Louis Watts.

W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications – Joanne Gula, Rob Rabe and Nerissa Young.

Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine – Gabriela Ballester, Oscar Ballester, Yan Chen, Pier Claudio, Piyali Dasgupta, Jenna Dolan, Brian Dunlap, Richard Egleton, Ahmad El-Bash, Marie Frazier, Muhammad Gill, Andrea Hill, Casey Holliday, Dawn Holliday, Mateen Hotiana, Hisham Keblawi, Toussaint Leclercq, Cheri Yost Lindberg, Wen Long, Ahmad Nusair, Bryan Payne, Frank Richter, Ashar Salman, Charles Shuff, Sara Walker von Wulffer and John Wilkinson IV.

A reception to honor the new faculty will take place in the Performing Arts Center lobby after the meeting.

For more information, call Bernice Bullock with the faculty senate at (304) 696-4376.

###