MU assistant professor to discuss importance of including women in process of rebuilding and creating sustainable peace after war

Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva, an assistant professor in Marshall University’s department of history, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26,  in the Drinko Library auditorium (room 402) on Marshall’s Huntington campus. Tabyshalieva will discuss her new book, a volume she co-edited with Albrecht Schnabel, called Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding.  Published this…

Marshall graduate pledges $300,000 for Medical School scholarships

Donald L. “Don” Blankenship, a 1972 Marshall University graduate, has generously committed $300,000 over a three-year period for scholarships at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Blankenship made the pledge in honor of his mother, Nancy Marie McCoy, who passed away in 1995. The first $100,000 gift was received in early September. “The demographics…

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…