Tommy Warf, a ceramics graduate student from Huntington, handcrafts a ceramic bowl to be donated for the Empty Bowls event on Tuesday, April 7. Photo courtesy of Marshall University.

Dr. David Castleberry, professor of music at Marshall University, will conduct the university's chamber choir on tour beginning March 18.

Gov. Joe Manchin displays the bowls he and Marshall University President Stephen Kopp, left, signed for the 2009 Empty Bowls event.  The bowls will be auctioned off to raise money for the Huntington Area Food Bank.

“Botticelli”  is an altered bookwork by Doug Beube, who will speak at Marshall University March 5.

The Huntington Area Development Council (HADCO) today presented Marshall University President Dr. Stephen J. Kopp with a check for $50,000 to support the “Bucks for Brains” initiative. Pictured are, from left, Dr. Ron Area, CEO of the Marshall University Foundation, Inc.; Dr. Eric Kmiec, Director and Lead Research Scientist of the Marshall University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR); Gerald McDonald, President of HADCO; David Graley, former Chairman of HADCO; John Maher, Vice President for Research with the Marshall University Research Corp; President Kopp; Romie Mundy, Secretary of HADCO; and Brent Marsteller, Chairman of HADCO.

Marshall women’s basketball Coach Royce Chadwick, left, talks with “Up Late” host Jamie LoFiego. on the Feb. 14 program.

Marshall University has opened a new multipurpose facility on the lower level of the Memorial Student Center on the Huntington campus.

Dr. Jennifer Y. Mak, associate professor and program coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate sport management programs at Marshall University, will be inducted as Research Consortium Fellow at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Convention and Exposition April 2.

Michael Ward, right, chairman and CEO of CSX Corporation, and Dr. Ron Area, CEO of the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., hold an oversized check for $50,000 presented from CSX to Marshall University for the “Bucks for Brains” initiative. The check presentation took place Jan. 22 at the Nick J. Rahall II Appalachian Transportation Institute.

Beth Wolfe has been selected as Marshall University’s new director of recruitment.

Adam Cavalier, a Marshall University senior from Montgomery, W.Va., has qualified for the semifinals in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program.

This year’s FluteWorks Jan. 24 will feature Bernard Goldberg, longtime principal flutist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, who is now retired.