The Newsletter for Marshall University                                     Feb. 8, 2023
Faculty and Staff 
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Marshall to host fifth annual TEDxMarshallU event Feb. 25

Marshall University will host its 5th annual TEDxMarshallU event organized by students, faculty and staff from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center. The theme for this year’s event is “Complexities of Identity,” which will explore the reality that every person has many intersecting identities. The goal for this event …

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Flight school hosts roundtable on Advanced Air Mobility

Marshall University’s Bill Noe Flight School hosted a roundtable event Feb. 6 and 7 for those concerned with a burgeoning new industry called Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), which includes autonomous cargo operations such as the delivery of services by drones. Opening day speakers included Bill Noe, Chief Aviation Officer at Marshall University; Mike Graney, Executive Director, West Virginia Department of …

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Interim Title IX Coordinator Jessica Rhodes has been named to the permanent position, effective immediately, university officials announced Feb. 2. Rhodes has served the university since 2021 when she was selected for the Title IX investigator position. She was named to the interim position in 2022 and, following an extensive national search for a Title IX coordinator, was selected for the official position. Prior to coming to Marshall, Rhodes worked as an attorney for Legal Aid of West Virginia, the Mason County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and the West Virginia Office of Lawyer Disciplinary Counsel. She is a graduate of Marshall University and the West Virginia University College of Law. Additionally, she has been certified by the Association of Title IX Administrators.
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RCBI secures $4.5 million for apprenticeship initiative

The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) has been awarded $4.5 million in federal funding to bolster and expand its national advanced manufacturing apprenticeship partnership. Apprenticeship Works, the National Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship initiative at RCBI, already has assisted manufacturers in 21 states coast to coast, including West Virginia, by helping companies develop and implement customized apprenticeship programs in 20 high-demand advanced …

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School of Theatre and Dance to present ‘Steel Magnolias’

Marshall University’s School of Theatre and Dance will present “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturdays, Feb. 15-18 and Feb. 22-25, in the Francis‐Booth Experimental Theatre of the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. This comedy-drama shares the stories of women living in Chinquapin, Louisiana, and is set largely in Truvy’s beauty salon. The Southern ladies …

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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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Human Resource Management master’s degree program acknowledged by global society

Marshall has aligned its Master of Science in Human Resource Management degree with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates. Throughout the world, more than 500 programs in approximately 425 educational institutions have been acknowledged by SHRM as being in alignment with its suggested guides and templates. "It's an honor to say that the Marshall …

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Faculty Achievement: Dr. Sasha Zill

Dr. Sasha Zill, in collaboration with colleagues from West Virginia University (Dr. Nicholas Szczecinski and graduate student Will Zyhowski), has published a major paper in the journal Frontiers in Neurorobotics.  The paper is titled "Adaptive load feedback robustly signals force dynamics in robotic model of Carausius morosus" and describes force sensors in robotic machines that mimic sense organs that detect …

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Faculty Achievement: Dr. Debra Lockwood and Dr. Jennifer McFarland-Whisman

The research article, " A Preliminary Look at Reasons for Attrition Among Special Educators Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders" was published in the quarterly issue of Rural Special Education Quarterly in December 2022 by Dr.  Jennifer McFarland-Whisman, Steven Whisman, and Dr. Debra Lockwood.

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Marshall University's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Guidelines are fully revised for the 2023 Spring Semester. They include:

• Step-by-step instructions from initial idea to submitting a finished manuscript

• What to expect during the ETD review process

• A final draft checklist outlining reviewer criteria

• A new Microsoft Word template

Graduate students and faculty are encouraged to review the updates at https://www.marshall.edu/graduate/thesis-and-dissertation-style-guide/.
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The next regular issue of We Are...Marshall will be distributed Feb. 15, 2023. Please send items for consideration to WAMnewsletter@marshall.edu by 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
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