{"id":690,"date":"2019-12-19T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/?page_id=690"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:26:51","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/press\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS ROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPCOMING EVENTS
\nLooking forward to Fall 2025…<\/h2>\n

September 3 & 4, 10 & 11, 2025 – 4 p.m., Buskirk Field
\nOpen Quoits Tournament<\/strong>
\nStudents, faculty, staff, and alumni are all welcome to play
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September 12, 2025 – 3 p.m., Buskirk Field
\nPresident’s Invitational Quoits Match<\/strong>
\nOpen Quoits Winners vs. President Brad Smith\u2019s Team<\/em><\/p>\n

September 16, 2025 – 10 a.m.-2 p.m., MSC Plaza
\nNational Voter Registration Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

September 17, 2025 – 4 p.m., Drinko Library Atrium
\nU.S. Constitution & Citizenship Day Trivia<\/strong><\/p>\n

September 19, 2025 – 11 a.m., Buskirk Field
\nMedia Quoits Challenge
\n<\/strong>Members of the press and civic leaders play Marshall Quoits Teams<\/em>
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September 23, 2025 – 10 a.m., Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
\nCourt on Campus
\n<\/strong>Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Oral Arguments Session<\/em>
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October 23, 2025
\nJayne Anne Phillips
\n<\/strong>AE Stringer Visiting Writers Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

November 6, 2025 – Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
\nJavier Zamora
\n<\/strong>Marshall Artists Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

& looking forward to Spring 2026…<\/h2>\n

March 5-7, 2026<\/strong>
\nAmerican Milestone Symposium<\/a>
\nThe American Milestone Symposium will be held at Marshall University with an excursion to the historic HBCU, Land-grant University founded in 1891 – West Virginia State University.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS EVENTS
\nSpring 2025<\/h2>\n

May 2025 Graduating ACTA Scholars List<\/a><\/p>\n

May 3, 2025<\/strong>
\nDr. Chris White named 30th Distinguished Drinko Fellow at the 2025 Drinko Symposium<\/a><\/p>\n

May 2, 2025<\/strong>
\nHonors Convocation<\/p>\n

March 11, 2025<\/strong>
\n3:00 pm<\/strong> – Drinko Library Atrium<\/strong> – Faculty Publication Celebration
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March 8, 2025<\/strong>
\n7:30 pm<\/strong> – Drinko Library Atrium<\/strong> – International Women’s Day Recital featuring Dr. Julie Park and Dr. Johan Botes<\/p>\n

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February 19, 2025<\/strong>
\nVideo of our standing-room-only Carter G. Woodson Lecture<\/a> featuring Former West Virginia State Senator Marie E. Redd. She spoke about the Burlington 37, who formed the first free-black community west of the Allegheny Mountains in 1849. \"\"<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n

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July & December 2024 Graduating ACTA Scholars List<\/a><\/p>\n

October 8, 2024<\/strong>
\nWV Gubernatorial & Huntington Mayoral Candidate Forum<\/p>\n