AmeriCorps West Virginia: Serving Others Through Self-Growth
By Mitzi Vince Marsha moved back to her hometown of War, West Virginia, from South Carolina after a divorce in 1995, and one of her only employment opportunities involved cleaning homes for an average monthly income of $350. When the AmeriCorps APPALREAD program came into her county in 1998, the single mother who needed food […]
Benefit concert to assist Marshall University music staff member
A group of music faculty members from Marshall University’s School of Music and Theatre will perform a benefit concert at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, at Fellowship Baptist Church for Beverly McKinney, the school’s administrative assistant, who is battling brain cancer. The Violauta Duo, made up of Dr. Wendell Dobbs, flute, and Dr. Julio Alves, […]
Marshall University Forensic Science Center to host lecture for honors students on criminal behavior
Marshall University’s College of Education and College of Science will conduct a special lecture, “Nature versus Nurture,” sponsored by the Honors College for its students at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Marshall University Forensic Science Center. The lecture will cross-examine whether traits of human behavior are inherited or learned and whether humans may […]
MU professor named Outstanding Civil Engineering Educator of the Year
A Marshall University professor has been named the first recipient of the Outstanding Civil Engineering Educator of the Year Award established by the West Virginia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (WVASCE). Dr. Richard McCormick, a professor of engineering in the College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE), received the award at the […]
Effect of ‘Don Quixote’ on Dostoevsky and his works topic of lecture to be delivered by Marshall Prof. Slav N. Gratchev
Marshall University Prof. Slav N. Gratchev will deliver a lecture titled Cervantes and Dostoevsky: Crossing the Boundaries of Space and Time, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall’s Huntington campus. In his presentation, Prof. Gratchev will examine how Cervantes’ classic novel, Don Quixote, affected Dostoevsky […]
Three Names Will be Added to the West Liberty University Alumni Wall of Honor during Homecoming 2012
The West Liberty University alumni association will add the names of three distinguished alumni, Jack Adams ’63, Joan Campbell ’62 and Dr. Melvin Sorkowitz ’62, to its Wall of Honor at an induction ceremony breakfast, 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 13 in the R. Emmett Boyle Conference Center. The ceremony is part of the Hilltopper Homecoming […]