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We Are...Marshall, November 11, 2020

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Football Memorial rededication honors lives lost 50 years

after plane crash

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Yesterday, the university rededicated the Marshall Football Memorial as the first in a series of commemorative events to honor the lives lost in the Nov. 14, 1970 plane crash. This year marks 50 years since Southern Airways Flight 932 crashed with 75 Thundering Herd teammates, coaches, staff, supporters and flight crew members on board.

The statue, originally dedicated in 1971 in front of the Pi Kappa Alpha (ΠΚΑ) house on 5th Ave., has been restored and

relocated to the university’s Huntington campus near the Marshall Rec Center on 20th Street.

Five brothers from the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity died in the crash: Starting Quarterback Ted Shoebridge and Offensive Linemen Jim Adams, Mike Blake, Pat Norrell and Bob

Patterson. John Bodo, a student and member of the fraternity at the time, designed the memorial to honor the five and Marshall graduate and former co-captain of the 1958-59 football team, Artist Vernon Howell created the sculpture and donated it to establish the memorial.

Dr. Stan Maynard appointed to State Board of Education

Gov. Jim Justice has announced the appointment of Arthur “Stan” Maynard, Ed.D., to the West Virginia State Board of Education. The appointment is effective immediately. He will fill the expired seat formerly held by David G. Perry.

The term will last through Nov. 4, 2029.

Maynard is currently the executive director of the June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development at Marshall University. He resides in Huntington.

Maynard has over 40 years of service to public education and higher education, spending the last 20 years working with school districts to provide educators and families of rural West Virginia with a support system that addresses educational challenges in order to benefit all areas of children’s ongoing development and achievement.

Maynard has a longstanding partnership with the West Virginia Department of Education to support initiatives such as early literacy systems and STEM professional development. He is also a strong advocate for the children and families of rural West Virginia.

Maynard is a West Virginia native from Holden in Logan County. He attended Virginia Tech for his undergraduate degree and later received a Masters degree in Science and Public Health from the University of North Carolina. He earned a second Masters from Marshall University and his doctorate from Ohio University in 1978.

Prior to joining Marshall University as a faculty member in 1980, Maynard taught and coached basketball at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia and in public schools in West Virginia. He also services as a pastor at Church in the Valley in Milton.

Marshall to host online Holiday Food Safety educational

event today

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Marshall University Nutrition Education Program will host an online Holiday Food Safety event at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. It is free and open to all. The Facebook Live event will feature Marshall dietitians offering their expertise on how families can stay safe and avoid foodborne illnesses during the upcoming holiday season.

“The holidays are a great time to enjoy our favorite foods with friends and family,” said Alicia Fox, director of the Marshall University Nutrition Education

Program. “It is important to keep the foods we serve safe to prevent foodborne illnesses. Food safety is the most important component of holiday meals and unfortunately many times overlooked.”

Log on and have an opportunity to ask questions of the nutrition educators from the comfort of your home. Visit the Marshall University Nutrition Education Program on Facebook to participate in the event.

Important Notice for Time Clock Plus Managers

Due to Marshall’s holiday schedule, TCP managers will need to enter and approve clock out times for Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 in TCP by noon Friday, November 20, 2020. TCP will then close the payroll

period at 5 p.m. Friday, November 20, 2020 to allow adequate time to generate the paychecks for the December 4th pay date.

If you have any questions please email them to payroll@marshall.edu. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Happy Holidays!

Attention Faculty: Course Archiving in December 2020

It is time to archive your older course sections if you wish to retain section content prior to 2019.

Online Learning and Blackboard, Inc. are working to archive older live course sections once again. We are a managed hosted institution and must ensure that we do not exceed allotted space. Blackboard is also not a repository for information, so there are many years of live course sections that we must backup, archive, and remove from their server. Online Learning and IT will assist in archiving courses from 2017-2018 during December 2020.

*Important Note*

It is not Marshall University or Blackboard’s policy to destroy course data or files. We are simply archiving older sections of courses and moving them to external hard drives to free up our server space and stay in line with university policy of archiving course sections that are older than two years.

What do I need to do?

For every type of course that you use Blackboard for, we need you to make sure you have a Development section for it that is current and reflects your updated content.

Will this affect Development sections?

No, we are only archiving past live course sections.

Will I be able to easily access course information later?

No, this is why we are asking you to have an updated Development course for each class you teach.

Can I have Development section for my face-to-face and my distance education course because I deliver content differently?

Absolutely.

But what if I want to save my course myself?

You can save any course section you would like and keep it on your own drive. Please see the Blackboard Help site for Exporting and Archiving Courses for

instructions.[https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Course_Content/Reuse_Content/Export_and_A rchive_Courses]

If you would like to keep back copies of your live courses, we recommend you start a habit of backing up and saving your courses at the end of each semester.

Will this continue?

Yes, archiving was done several times since 2014 and will continue on a rolling basis each fall over Christmas break. Only 24 months of live course content can be retained on Blackboard servers.

What are the benefits?

A few benefits we will see immediately are:

1. The addition of free space on the servers that house Blackboard courses. This can increase Blackboard’s functionality and speed.

2. We are asking faculty to stop copying their old live sections into their new live sections and instead copy from a development course. If we keep copying course-to-course-to-course, eventually your course will break because with every copy it brings along a FULL set of copies of files and data. Copy from Development sections and you can ready your course for the next semester before the live course is even available!

3. We are committed to making all course content in Blackboard accessible to all students, and we can do this with Blackboard Ally. Having a development section that can be updated and made accessible is the start to making all content available to students from all walks of life.

4. Having less material on our server space will allow us to update Blackboard more frequently with less downtime and easier “fixes” to those known technical issues.

To make this process smoother, we have created a form.

Step 1: Check to make sure you have Development courses for courses with any Blackboard content. Step 2: If you do not have a Development section but would like one, please figure out which of your sections you would like us to copy INTO the Development section.

Please click here to submit a request for your archived course content to be copied into a development section: Course Archive Development Form.

Theatre program to stream ‘Baby Snooks and Daddy’

starting Nov. 12

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Marshall’s theatre program will stream a Halloween-themed episode of the vintage American radio program, “Baby Snooks and Daddy,” Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. nightly on VIMEO.

The “Halloween Trick or Treat” episode premiered in 1946 and followed the Higgins household and the shenanigans that unfold

during their Halloween night. Tricks play out that treat the audience to laughter and joy during the 30-minute broadcast. Please join Marshall University during our retailing of this classic comedic tale. “Baby Snooks and Daddy” was an American radio program that debuted on CBS on Sept. 17, 1944. The show stared Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, who was 40 years older than the character she was portraying. Fanny’s dedication and young-at-heart performances were perfect for the role of the young toddler. The radio character of Snooks first premiered in 1936 on the NBC revival of “The Ziegfeld Follies of The Air” and is credited with over 100 appearances. “Baby Snooks and Daddy” ended in 1951 following Fanny Brice’s untimely death. Brice was grieved throughout the entertainment industry, but her legacy lives on.

Marshall to host online dessert auction to benefit United

Way of the River Cities

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Marshall will host an online dessert auction Nov. 16-18, with the proceeds going toward the university’s 2020 workplace campaign. Community members are invited to

Visit www.marshall.edu/unitedway Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 16-18, to find a link to the

auction. Volunteer bakers will post photos of their desserts, and the public will have an opportunity to bid on their favorites.

Those who place the highest bids will have an opportunity to pick up their desserts Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 23-24, at Drinko Library on the Huntington campus.

“The United Way supports so many important causes in our community, especially now, when so many people are struggling with both their financial and their physical health,” said Gayle Brazeau, chair of Marshall’s 2020 United Way Workplace Campaign. “We thought an online dessert auction would be a safe, exciting way for community members to contribute to the cause — and it’s just in time for Thanksgiving, so they can check baking off their to-do list and support a good cause at the same time.” Desserts to be auctioned will include gourmet pie with the plate, decadent chocolate cake, homemade pumpkin roll, freshly baked cookies and much more.

Marshall to present ‘Faces of Physics’ virtual speaker

series

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Marshall University Society of Physics Students and the American Institute of Physics will present the “Faces of Physics Virtual Speaker Series,” beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, with Dr. Natalia Lewandowska of Haverford College. She will speak on “The Case of the Perfect Clocks in the Sky,” and her presentation is free and open to all. It will be followed by a question and answer session.

The series will continue with a presentation in December, as well as additional presentations in the spring semester, with topics focusing on the search for life in space, planets around other stars, the quest to understand and cure cancer, mysterious outer space clocks called pulsars and more. Virtual audience members will get a chance to pose questions to the scientists, who are asking big questions and making exciting discoveries.

Each month, a guest speaker will give a 30-minute talk on their current research, followed by a Q&A session with attendees.

“The goal of the event is to highlight the work of researchers from underrepresented groups to promote inclusion and inspire the next generation of scientists to see a place for themselves in the exciting field of physics,” said Marshall student Ellie White, a physics major and SPS vice president, who helped organize the series.

The talks will be held virtually through YouTube Live and are free and open to the public, and will be appropriate for all ages. To stay up to date on information pertaining to the event, sign up for the mailing

Cheryl King is the general manager for Sodexo, the food service provider on the Huntington campus at Marshall. She has been with Sodexo for 35 years and at Marshall for 20.

list at https://www.marshall.edu/physics/society-physics-students/ or follow Marshall University Physics on Facebook (@MUPhysicsDept).

The currently scheduled presentations are as follows, with more coming up during the spring semester: • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, Dr. Natalia Lewandowska of Haverford College, “The Case of the

Perfect Clocks in the Sky.”

• 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1 — Dr. Karen Perez of Columbia University, “On the Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center.”

• 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16 — Dr. Abel Mendez of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, “Habitable Worlds”

• _{More to be announced.}

The series is sponsored by the Marshall University Society of Physics Students and the American Institute of Physics. The organizers are SPS President Jackie Sizemore, SPS Vice President Ellie White and SPS Advisor Dr. Sean P. McBride, assistant professor of physics at Marshall.

School of Music to present online performance of

‘Invisible Dances’ guitar recital

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Marshall University School of Music will present “Invisible Dances,” an online guitar recital by faculty member Dr. Júlio Alves, planned for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18. The concert will be livestreamed from Smith Recital Hall, where Alves will performing. All are welcome to watch the performance, which will be available on YouTube at www.marshall.edu/music/youtube.

The program will feature works by Mauro Giuliani (performed on a period instrument), François Couperin, Júlio Alves, Luciano Fleming, Sérgio Assad, and Eustáquio Grilo, as well as the first performance of ‘Invisible Dances” (composed in 2020 by Giorgio Signorile and dedicated to Alves) in collaboration with dancer Ana Cecília Alves.

Local historian honored by Drinko Academy

A self-taught historian and archivist who has chronicled decades of the history of Wayne County, West Virginia, has been honored by the Drinko Academy with the John Deaver Drinko Academy 2020 Community Service Award.

Howard Franklin Osburn, a Wayne County native, has published extensively through the Wayne County Genealogical and Historical Society and worked diligently to preserve the history of Wayne County and its inhabitants. He has written several books, including a two-volume history of the Napier family, has compiled extensive census and cemetery

inventories, and maintains the society’s website, where much of his work can be seen. Wayne County’s history over the past two hundred years has been substantially preserved thanks to his and the society’s efforts.

In remarks at the ceremony honoring Osburn, President Gilbert commended Osburn on his years of service in the preservation of local history.

“We are a community of learners supported by many activities and experiences, both in formal settings and informal settings,” Gilbert said. “I’m very appreciative of Mr. Osburn’s work and applaud his tenacity, commitment, and love of history.”

Osburn was nominated for the award by Seibern Hazelett, president of the Wayne County Genealogical and Historical Society.

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Photo: Howard Osburn (right) receives the John Deaver Drinko Academy 2020 Community Service Award at Marshall University Nov. 5 at Marshall University for his extensive work on the history of Wayne County, West Virginia. He is pictured with Dr. Monserrat Miller (center), executive director of the Drinko Academy, and President Gilbert.

A complete gallery of the event is available here: https://muphotos.marshall.edu/Events/John-Deaver-Drinko-Academy/110520-Howard-Franklin-Osburn-/.

Marshall professor publishes chapter in new book, ‘Sport

and the Pandemic’

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The new book “Sport and the Pandemic” contains a chapter from Marshall University’s director of sport tourism and hospitality management program, Dr. Jennifer Mak.

The chapter is titled “The Effect of COVID-19 on Hong Kong Sports.” The chapter was written through a

collaboration between Mak and Siu Yin Cheung of Hong Kong Baptist University. They analyzed how athletics in Hong Kong were affected during the first 100 days of the coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 outbreak had many implications for sports in Hong Kong, for both professional competitors and amateur athletes. Olympic athletes could not qualify for the Olympic Games because qualifying events were cancelled. Others had their training schedules upended by fitness center closures and the postponement of the 2020 Olympics. For more casual athletes, COVID-19 mitigation efforts canceled community sports and reduced opportunities for physical activity and social interaction. These and other effects of the pandemic are closely examined at length by Mak and Cheung in the chapter. The chapter may be read online

at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003105916/chapters/10.4324/9781003105916-16. —–

Photo: Dr. Jennifer Mak of Marshall University poses with a copy of “The Effect of COVID-19 on Hong Kong Sports,” a new book in which she has co-written a chapter.

Wreath raffle to support Scottish Rite Foundation

The Marshall University Speech and Hearing Center is hosting a Christmas Wreath Raffle as a fundraiser for the Huntington Scottish Rite

Foundation. The Scottish Rite Foundation provides scholarships for children to receive speech therapy services at MUSHC’s RiteCare clinic, and would be unable to do so without fundraising efforts and donor

support. The Marshall community is invited to purchase raffle tickets for their favorite wreath. Wreaths will be on display in the MUSHC waiting room, Smith Hall 143, until Friday, Nov. 20. Raffle tickets are $2 each, or $10 for 6 tickets. For more information, please contact Ernay Adams by phone at 696-3644 or by e-mail

Coronavirus Statistics:

Faculty: 1 Staff*: 3

* 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

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