Courtney Kania of Oak Hill, W.Va., a 2008 Marshall University graduate, is the winner of the 2008 Holiday Card Design Contest. Allyson Eyermann of Ashland, Ky., a Marshall senior in the Department of Art and Design’s Ceramics program, won the 2008 Commemorative Plate Design Contest.

Marshall student Brian Dalek, left, host of an award-winning special called “The Conference USA Report-70s Edition,” poses with Logan Aimone, Executive Director of Associated Collegiate Press in Minneapolis, Minn. WMUL-FM received a first-place Podcast Best of Show award for the 30-minute special at the 87th Annual National College Media Convention/2008 Associated Press (ACP) Annual College Competition Ceremony in Kansas City. Photo courtesy of Marshall University.

Construction on much-needed new locker and team meeting rooms for Marshall University’s men’s and women’s basketball programs will begin within the next couple of weeks.

Marshall Theatre students performing Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" (Dec. 5-6) are Chris Ferris in black and Eric Woods in white. Photos provided by Marshall Theatre.

Radio personality Rocky Smith from The Dawg 93.7 talks with “Up Late” host Jamie LoFiego.

Dr. Eric Kmiec has been named the first Director and Lead Research Scientist of the Marshall University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR).

Editors and writers for The Parthenon, Marshall University’s campus newspaper, picked up three first-place awards and three scholarships at the W.Va. Press Association annual convention.

• WVPA awards: Left to right: Lauren Eubank, Sarina LoPresti, Melissa Newman, journalism school dean Corley F. Dennison III, Kristin Steele, Holly Rice and Parthenon adviser Nerissa Young. Photo by Emilie Barnette, W.Va. Press Association.
• WVPA scholarships: Left to right: Tina Bragg, mother of winner Tom Bragg; Tom Bragg; winner Morgan Unger, who did a summer internship with The Journal in Martinsburg: Journal editor Maria Lorensen; winner Kristin Steele; Diane Steele and Carl W. Steele, parents of Kristin Steele. Photo by Parthenon staff.

Dr. Laura R. McCunn, an assistant professor in Marshall University’s Department of Chemistry, has been named one of eight recipients of a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Award.

Marshall professors Dr. Richard Niles and Dr. Pier Paolo Claudio, winners of the Sebetia-Ter award in 2008 and 2007 respectively, have had leadership roles in establishing exchange agreements with universities overseas.

Dr. Barbara Becker-Cottrill, executive director of the West Virginia Autism Training Center at Marshall University, has been named co-chair of the Autism Society of America’s Panel of Professional Advisors (PPA).

Rebecca McPhail Samples has been named Assistant Vice President for Development at MU.

The Addy Award won by the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., is pictured with the cover of the 2006-2007 Annual Report.

Dr. Gayle L. Ormiston, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Curriculum at Kent State University since July 1, 2002, has been named Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Marshall University.

Six incoming freshmen have been named Erma Byrd Scholars at Marshall University:

• Kathy Barnett
• Erin Dzaack
• Sahana Fischer
• Laura Good
• Veronica Loss
• Alicia Petrarca

R. Scott Anderson has joined the Marshall University Foundation Inc. as Chief Financial Officer.

Members of Marshall University’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, the national band honorary fraternity, are renovating the band room in Smith Music Hall. (Pictured: Shawna Hatten and Amy Holliday.)

Dr. Shari Clarke has been named vice president of multicultural affairs at Marshall University. Photo provided by Shari Clarke.

Dr. Betsy Dulin has been named dean of the Marshall College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE).

Twelve incoming freshmen have been selected for Marshall University's Society of Yeager Scholars:

The annual Maier Awards for Latin and writing were given Monday, April 28. (Photos by Jeffrey Sholten Singer/Marshall University.)

Marshall University honored its EMBA Class of 2008 at a hooding ceremony April 26:

• Dr. Sarah Denman, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Marshall University, hoods EMBA graduate Katrina Spaulding of Crown City, Ohio.
• Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp presents top EMBA graduate Don Channell of Hurricane with a plaque. Channell earned a 4.0.
• Keynote speaker Phyllis Arnold of BB&T congratulates EMBA graduate Laura Davis Ellis of Charleston.

Ed Zimmerman, a Marshall University graduate and lifelong resident of Huntington, has joined the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., as Director of Planned Giving.

Austin Seybert, a freshman trombone major at Marshall University from Bridgeport, has been named one of four finalists from West Virginia to attend the Summer Music Institute conducted by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Marshall Department of Music.

Dr. Montserrat Miller, an associate professor of history at Marshall University, was named 2007 Professor of the Year by the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia.

Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc., President Mary Witten Wiseman, second from left, presents a check for $100,000 to Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp, second from right, on Friday, Feb. 29. Looking on are, at left, Bob Galardi, Director of Major Gifts for the Society of Yeager Scholars, and, at right, Dr. Barry Sharpe, Executive Director of the John R. Hall Center for Academic Excellence. The $100,000 represents the first payment toward a six-year gift from the Foundation to the Yeager Scholars program totaling $205,000. Photo by Dave Wellman/Marshall University.

Dr. Jennifer Y. Mak, associate professor and program coordinator in the Division of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation at Marshall University, has been named the 2008 Midwest District Scholar of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD).

Dr. David J. Pittenger, Associate Provost at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga since 2004, has been named dean of Marshall University’s College of Liberal Arts.

Dr. Kevin Law, assistant professor of geography at Marshall University, recently won the John Russell Mather Paper of the Year award sponsored by the Climate Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

CSX’s Regional Vice President-Public Affairs Randy Cheetham, second from left, presented a check for $20,000 to Marshall University. The funds will support research at the Rahall Transportation Institute at Marshall and fund a scholarship for Marshall’s engineering program. From left to right are Marshall President Stephen J. Kopp, Cheetham, Rahall Transportation Institute Director Robert Plymale, Dr. Tony Szwilski, Interim Dean of Marshall’s College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE), and Sara Mullen, director of development for CITE.

Cory Dennison IV has been named Director of Development for the university’s College of Science.

Michael G. Sellards, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Mary’s Medical Center, has been appointed to Marshall University’s Board of Governors by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III.

Dr Sarah N. Denman, Marshall's provost, will retire at the end of the current academic year.

Michelle Brown Douglas, Director of Equity Programs at Marshall University, will be the keynote speaker at Marshall’s eighth annual Diversity Breakfast.

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