Joseph Huter (left) of Hurricane, W.Va., finished first in the 2009 Holiday Card Design Contest. Kyle Quinn (right) of Huntington won the 2009 Commemorative Plate Design Contest.
Dr. Barbara Becker-Cottrill, third from the right in the front row, poses for a picture with participants in the Chinese Community Psychiatry Workshop in Taiwan. Photo courtesy of Marshall University.
Mary and Churchill Hodges received honorary doctoral degrees Dec. 5 at Marshall University's Winter Commencement.
Dr. Simon Perry, a professor of political science and member of Marshall University’s faculty for 48 years, delivered the keynote address at Marshall’s 2009 Winter Commencement.
Donald Van Horn, dean of the College of Fine Arts at Marshall University, received the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Presidential Award for Exemplary Achievement.
Eric
Ruegg (left), assistant professor of art and design, assists sophomore
art student Adam Howell measure and analyze the proportion and alignment of
his drawing. Photo by Sholten Singer.
Seated are, from left, Amy Ingles, co-owner of Starlight Behavioral Health, and Dr. Pamela Mulder, a professor of psychology at Marshall University. Standing are, from left, Dr. Steven Mewaldt, chair of Marshall’s Department of Psychology; Dr. David J. Pittenger, dean of Marshall’s College of Liberal Arts; and Jack Ingles, co-owner of Starlight Behavioral Health. Amy and Jack Ingles have donated 3,000 square feet of office space at Starlight to Marshall University to be used by students as they practice clinical psychology.
Photo 1: Glen Midkiff, event and public relations coordinator for the Office of Career Services at Marshall University, demonstrates the new Job Trax kiosk in Corbly Hall. Photo 2: Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp (second from left) unveils the Job Tax kiosk in Corbly Hall Oct. 2. With Kopp are, from left, Dr. Ron Area, Chief Executive Officer of the Marshall University Foundation; John Rulli, Marshall alumnus and Butler Executive in Residence; Rick Slater from Dixon-Hughes, Marshall alumnus and president of the college’s advisory board; and Dr. Chong W. Kim, dean of the Lewis College of Business at Marshall.
The Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce and Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Scholarship has been established by the Marshall University Foundation, Inc. From left to right are Matt White, Cassey Bowden, Christie White, Dr. Ron Area, Mark Bugher, Brandy Roisman and Romy Mundy. All but Area, who is Senior Vice President for Development and Chief Executive Officer for the Marshall University Foundation, are members of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce and Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Scholarship Committee. White is chair of the YPC and Bugher is president of the Chamber.A new collection of poems, Human Costume, by Marshall University Professor of English A.E. Stringer, has been published by Salmon Poetry.
Dr. Eric Blough and his colleagues at Marshall University have shown that use of the common pain reliever acetaminophen may help prevent age-associated muscle loss and other conditions.
From left, Lance West, vice president for development with the Marshall University Foundation, Dr. Chong Kim, dean of Marshall’s Lewis College of Business, Capt. Michael G. Armstrong with Marshall ROTC, and Dr. Dan Evans, a Marshall University biology professor and vice commander of American Legion Post 16, pose with an oversized check of $1,150 presented by Post 16 to the MU Foundation on Friday, Sept. 18.
Judge Dan O’Hanlon, middle, poses with Marshall University students Katherine Nicole Bush, left, and Aaron N. Preece during a ceremony today in the Memorial Student Center on Marshall’s Huntington campus. Preece took first place and Bush was the second-place winner in the Dan O’Hanlon Constitution Week and John Marshall Celebration Essay Competition.
Daniel Kaufmann, a new faculty member in the College of Fine Arts, has been chosen to participate in an exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His project was titled "House Home" and each individual image was numbered, such as "House Home #5."
Employees of Pets and Things, along with three Marshall University cheerleaders, pose outside their business in Huntington. Pets and Things is the first winner of the Green Fridays business contest, sponsored by Marshall University.
Pictured from left to right are Marshall students Stacey Smith of Kenova; William Graham of Falling Waters; Luana Sizemore of Clay; Margaret Stephens of Leon; Cody Collins of Huntington; Pat Eckert of Daphney, Ala.; Crystal Woody of Oak Hill; Catrese Thomason of St. Albans; Christina Meade of Huntington; Kimberly White of Harts, Alex Mull of Glen Dale and Owen West of Nelsonville, Ohio. The students are spending a year in Europe as participants in the U.S. Department of Education’s Atlantis Dual Degree Exchange Program.
Margie J. Phillips, shown here on Marshall University’s Huntington campus, is Marshall’s new Sustainability Manager.
Marshall University representatives (from left) Max Billmyer, Amanda Thompson-Abbott, Tyler Rowland and Alex Kovarik attended the Beta Alpha Psi annual national meeting recently. Billmyer was part of a four-person team that won a research award.
Celebrating Marshall's representation in the Society of Professional Journalists National Mark of Excellence awards are, from left: Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, radio-television professor and WMUL adviser; Adam Cavalier, first-place winner in radio news reporting; Nerissa Young, print professor and The Parthenon adviser; Erin Felton, national finalist in editorial cartooning; and Dr. Corley Dennison, dean of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Working in a lab in the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center are Marshall University faculty members, from left, Dr. Elizabeth E. Murray, Dr. Marcia A. Harrison, Dr. Piyali Dasgupta, Dr. Beverly C. Delidow and Dr. Judith A. Silver. Harrison is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant of $750,000 awarded to a group of faculty members that includes Murray, Harrison, Delidow, Silver and Dr. Patricia Y. Logan, who is not pictured. Dasgupta, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, is a participant in the MU-ADVANCE initiative, which benefits from the grant.
Six entering freshmen have been named Erma Byrd Scholars at Marshall University:
Lesley Cruickshank - Charleston, W.Va.
Kimberly Frazier - Charleston, W.Va.
Samantha DiDomenico - Follansbee, W.Va.
Katherine Forester - Sod, W.Va.
Amy Moses - Parkersburg, W.Va.
Aaron Preece - Huntington, W.Va.
The J. Churchill Hodges Summer Scholars Program was conducted this summer on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. Evan Madden from Cabell Midland High School and Suzann Al-Qawasmi from Huntington High School were this year’s participants.
Dr. Joan E. Wilson works in a laboratory in the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology
Science Center at Marshall University.
Thundering Herd fans can meet new athletic director Mike Hamrick at "Paint the Capital City Green" in Charleston Aug. 19.
Ginny Painter has been appointed director of communications for the Marshall University Research Corporation.
The John Marshall Fife and Drum Corps, shown here in an appearance at Williamsburg last year, will play at the closing ceremonies for the National Flute Association convention Aug. 16.
Mike Hamrick speaks at a news conference July 15 after being introduced as director of athletics at Marshall University.
Dr. Monica Brooks has been appointed Assistant Vice President for Information Technology: Online Learning and Libraries at MU.
Dr. Rudy Pauley has been named Associate Vice President for Outreach and Continuing Studies at Marshall University.
Dr. Simon Collier (Photo 1) examines a slide in a laboratory at Marshall University. Dr. Collier was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the role of genes in controlling animal development. (Photo 2) Dr. Simon Collier works in a laboratory at Marshall University. Dr. Collier was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the role of genes in controlling animal development.
Dr. David Castleberry has begun serving as associate dean for the College of Fine Arts.
Dr. Chong Kim, interim dean of Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business for the past year, has been appointed permanent dean of the college.
Dr. Jamie Warner is the new associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts.
Judge Dan O’Hanlon speaks during a reception June 10 at Marshall University in which a new essay competition that pays tribute to O’Hanlon and former Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall was announced. The Dan O’Hanlon Constitution Week and John Marshall Celebration Essay Competition was created with a $50,000 anonymous donation. Photo by Patrick Stanley/Marshall University.
John Hess, a member of the Marshall University Board of Governors, will chair the search committee for Marshall's next athletic director.
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.
The doctoral dissertation of James M. Owston has received the 2009 Alice L. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Educational Advancement from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education as well as the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration from the American Association of University Administrators.
Six incoming freshmen have been selected for Marshall University's Society of Yeager Scholars (photos provided by students):
Dr. Mary Todd, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty for the past five years at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio, has been named Founding Dean of the Marshall University Honors College.
(Photo 1) Equestrians Claire Curtis, left, and Lindsey Jordan Strain, right, competed for the first Marshall University Equestrian Team this past academic year. Coach Billie Rae Graham will be holding tryouts the second week of classes in the Fall 2009 semester. (Photo 2) Lindsey Jordan Strain competes for Marshall University at an Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Show.
Dan Hollis, an associate professor of journalism at Marshall University, and MU graduate student Ryan Epling received first-place awards in professional competition at the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) 2009 National Convention.
Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has presented its 2009 Outstanding Rural Clinician and Medical Educator Award to two Wayne County physicians, Dr. Gary D. Cremeans and Dr. Glenn A. Harper.
Mary Ellen Heuton has been named Controller of Marshall University.
Marshall University Professor Dr. Bonita Lawrence poses with the differential analyzer before the model was unveiled during a public demonstration Saturday night at Marshall.: Photo 1 Photo 2
Dr. Charles Somerville, professor of biological sciences at Marshall University, has accepted an appointment as the next dean of the College of Science. Photo 1 Photo 2
Marshall University student Molly Elizabeth Grove, left, and Josephine Fidler, president-elect of the Pilot Club of Huntington, look over the guidelines for the Dorothy Goodman Memorial Scholarship. Grove was the first recipient of the scholarship.
Melanie Griffis, Director of Development for Marshall University’s College of Fine Arts, recently received the Quarter Century Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Gretchen E. Oley, M.D., professor emeritus, has been appointed interim dean of Marshall University’s College of Health Professions.
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.
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