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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153

Larsen serving as Drinko Academy Fellow at Marshall University

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Eldon Larsen, professor of engineering at Marshall University, is serving as the 2009-2010 Drinko Academy Fellow.

Drinko Fellows receive reduced teaching loads to undertake research or curriculum development. Larsen will be completing work on a textbook on project management.

The Drinko Academy was founded in 1985 by John Deaver Drinko, a Marshall alumnus and noted attorney, when he and his wife, Elizabeth Gibson Drinko, established a million dollar chair, the university’s first, in the College of Liberal Arts. The initial program proved so successful that in the spring of 1994, the Drinko Chair was redesigned, enlarged and renamed to encompass revised objectives.

The academy is devoted to enhancing public understanding of American institutions and the responsibilities of citizens to their society and particularly the public’s sense of shared values and common purposes.

Larsen has three degrees in chemical engineering, a B.S. and an M.S. from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a development and project scientist and senior engineer for Union Carbide Corporation before becoming a full-time faculty member at Marshall University in 1999. Widely published, he has received numerous awards, including the Ashland Outstanding Graduate Advisor of the Year Award in 2004 and the Union Carbide Corporation Chairman’s Award, the corporation’s highest recognition award for individual achievement, in 1996.

He is the first faculty member from the College of Information Technology and Engineering to be named a Drinko Fellow.

“It is a big honor to be given this award and I’m grateful to the university for the opportunity to serve as a Drinko Fellow,” Larsen said. “I appreciate everyone’s support.”

He will present his research to the university community at a symposium next spring during Marshall’s annual Celebration of Academics. The symposium is presented in tandem with the other centerpiece, the Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation. Established in 1994, it is the time the university collectively acknowledges its honor students.

For further information, contact:  Office of University Communications
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