The Newsletter for Marshall University                                      Jan. 18, 2023
Faculty and Staff 
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Marshall community gathers in service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Marshall University honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with community service projects and a celebration dinner Monday in Huntington. Students, staff and community members were invited to join one of several community service projects from 10 a.m. – noon, which included a community clean up with Real Life Christian Center Church on Ninth Avenue, Antioch …

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Title IX Task Force to develop recommendations

President Brad D. Smith, in response to student concerns, has commissioned a Title IX Task Force to aid in the restructuring of Marshall University’s Title IX office. Members of the Marshall community are invited to share their ideas. Before winter break, a group of elected students, faculty and staff met and formed the official Title IX Task Force and began …

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Library to move Government Documents, announce Dr. Jean Edward Smith Research Collection

Marshall University Libraries has relocated its Government Documents section. It will reopen the section in the new location and introduce its new Dr. Jean Edward Smith [pictured] Research Collection Wednesday, Jan. 18. An opening celebration is scheduled for 2 p.m. Jan. 18 on the second floor of Drinko Library, across from the Writing Center. Light refreshments will be served, and all are …

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Marshall opens sculptural art exhibit 

The School of Art and Design opened a two-person sculpture exhibit, Voyage of Life, yesterday. The Voyage of Life exhibit will be on view from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Feb. 9 in the Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery inside the Visual Arts Center, located at 927 3rd Ave. in downtown Huntington. There will be an artist …

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Marshall chapter of Society of Physics Students earns Outstanding Chapter Award

Marshall’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students has earned an Outstanding Chapter award from the national SPS office for a third year. This will be the fifth consecutive year Marshall’s SPS group has been nationally recognized, with the last three consecutive years being the highest possible distinction by the American Institute of Physics. “I am very pleased that our …

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Faculty member presents at Generative Art Conference in Rome

Dr. Mark Zanter (pictured), interim director of the School of Art and Design, was invited to Rome, Italy, last month to present a paper at the 25th Generative Art Conference. His paper, titled “The Use of Markov Chains in ‘Ex Machina’ (2022),” addresses how probability matrices generate music in several sections of the work. “Ex Machina” is a multi-disciplinary work …

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Registration opens for Marshall Day at the Capitol

The Herd is coming! Marshall Day at the Capitol will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at the West Virginia State Capitol Complex. Marshall University departments and organizations are asked to register for a display table at the event. Each displaying department/organization will be provided a table and two chairs, along with a lunch generously …

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Application period underway for DASA awards, Hedrick grant and fellowship

Applications for the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Awards (MU-DASA), Hedrick Faculty Teaching Fellow, and Hedrick Program Grant for Teaching Innovation will be accepted through February 15, 2023. The MU-DASA awards recognize distinction in the fields of artistic and scholarly activity on the part of Marshall University faculty. Submissions must constitute a significant body of artistic, scholarly, or creative …

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Drinko Library displaying artworks celebrating ‘Optimism in Appalachia’

Marshall University Libraries and the School of Art and Design are presenting “Optimism in Appalachia: Reclaiming Hope through Artwork, Crafts, and Poetry,” an exhibition that will be on display through May 5 in Drinko Library on the Huntington campus. An opening reception is planned for 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Drinko Atrium. It is free and open to …

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The next regular issue of We Are...Marshall will be distributed Jan. 25, 2023. Please send items for consideration to WAMnewsletter@marshall.edu by 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.
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