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The Newsletter for Marshall University Jan. 12, 2022
Faculty and Staff
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Marshall University faculty, staff and students are once again preparing to make their voices heard on the biggest stage in the state when the university travels to Charleston to celebrate Marshall Day at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the West Virginia State Capitol. There are plenty of spaces left for departments to sign up to attend, according to Larry Crum, senior director of communications and marketing at the Marshall University Foundation. To register your unit, visit https://www.herdalum.com/marshall-university-day-at-the-capitol-registration. Read more. |
Dr. Kenneth O'Connor, associate professor of chemistry, died Jan. 5. A longtime member of the faculty, he studied chemistry at Hunter College where he obtained a B.S. degree in 1983. He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester in 1989 under the direction of Professor Robert Boeckman. He began teaching at Marshall in 1999. Donations …
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The Hedrick Program Grant for Teaching Innovation2021-22 award recipients present Building Equitable and Accessible Courses with Universal Design for Learning, a series of trainings and workshops offered to faculty for Spring 2022. Grant recipients Jill Underhill (Communication Studies), Hanna Kozlowski (Art & Design), and Megan Marshall (English) form the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Community of Practice. The mission of …
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The School of Music will present a guest piano recital with New York-based pianist Dr. Michael Noble at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, in Smith Recital Hall on the Marshall campus. It is free and open to all. Noble will perform piano solo works by 20th-century composers, including Frederic Rzewski's monumental set of variations “The People United Will Never Be …
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Marshall’s Wars Within, The Wars Without program, which aims to help local veterans reflect on their experiences, is hosting an upcoming lecture in January and a series of discussion groups for veterans in February and March. A lecture by Dr. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg of Duke University is scheduled to be livestreamed at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21. It can be …
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The Honors College provides faculty of programs from across the university the opportunity to design and teach Honors Seminars (as sections of HON 480) on subjects that inspire them, but that they may not have the opportunity to teach within their regular teaching duties. Faculty in our small seminars work with outstanding, highly motivated students to actively explore a subject …
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A test of the MU Alert emergency messaging system will be conducted Wednesday, Jan. 26. Marshall community members who are subscribed to MU Alert are asked to be sure that they have received the message that morning. If a message has not been received by noon, a subscriber should review and update his or her contact information in the myMU/MU …
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Marshall Health, the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Mountain Health Network welcome Hassan Mahmoud El Hassan, D.D.S., to their team of dental providers. El Hassan will also serve as assistant professor for the School of Medicine’s general dentistry residency program. El Hassan earned his doctorate degree in dental surgery from Novogrod State University in the Russian …
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The Marshall community is invited to be a part of the annual HerdCon pop culture convention, happening on March 5, 2022, in the Memorial Student Center. This spring will be the first in-person HerdCon event since 2019. Organizers are excited for the event and are hoping for a similar turnout to the more than 1,000 attendees in 2019. Organizers are …
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Joshua White of Barboursville, a freshman in the College of Arts and Media at Marshall University, captured the Grand Championship Award in the recent 2021 Tri-State Makes Festival Design Challenge presented by the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI). White won $2,000 in cash for his original design of an interactive web-based game to connect students, parents and teachers virtually to …
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Dr. Debra Lockwood, assistant professor of special education in the College of Education and Professional Development, has an online publication in the Fall 2021 edition of the Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina titled “Ensuring Excellence: Using Concept Maps to Evaluate Preservice Teacher Understanding of Differentiated Instruction.” It was written with Dr. Jeremy Lopuch of Winthrop University. |
Coronavirus Statistics:New Cases Since December 29, 2021 Students: 138
Faculty: 5
Staff*: 29 * Includes auxiliary employees (Sodexo, Aetna, Rec Center, etc.) All testing is being done in partnership with Marshall Health, Cabell Huntington Hospital, Pleasant Valley Hospital, QLabs Inc. and MedExpress Urgent Care. The most recent information is always available at www.marshall.edu/coronavirus/dashboard. |
The next regular issue of We Are...Marshall will be distributed Jan. 19, 2022. Please send items for consideration to WAMnewsletter@marshall.edu by noon Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. |
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