The agenda will consist of welcoming remarks by the faculty senate chair, Dr. Paige Muellerleile; the introduction of new administrators by the provost, Dr. Gayle Ormiston; the introduction of 87 new faculty by the deans or representatives from their respective colleges/schools, including the School of Medicine associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development, Dr. Darshana Shah; and the School of Pharmacy dean, Dr. Kevin Yingling; a state of the faculty address by Muellerleile; and a state of the university address by Marshall President Dr. Jerome Gilbert.
All faculty, staff, students and members of the public are invited to attend. After the meeting a reception to honor the new university personnel will be held in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center, with music provided by Rachel Ward, administrative secretary, senior, with the Faculty Senate.
New administrative positions to be introduced are: Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Cedric Gathings, Interim Dean of the Lewis College of Business Robert Simpson; University Registrar Dr. Sonja Cantrell, Dean of the Honors College Dr. Nicola LoCascio, and Associate Vice President for Libraries and Online Learning Dr. Monica Brooks.
New faculty to be introduced are:
College of Arts and Media
Alexander Lee and Kirsten Sadler
Lewis College of Business
Casey Baker, Dexter Gruber, John Oryema, Mohammad Sameem and Olen York
College of Education and Professional Development
Elbert Davis, Sherry Early, Jeanette Farmer, Debra Lockwood, Conrae Lucas-Adkins and Jennifer McFarland-Whisman
College of Health Professions
Timothy Bender, Duane Davis, Paul Kadetz, Sandra Kemper, Kelli Larsen, Steven Leigh, Nandini Manne, Ashley Mason, Gary McDaniel, Paula Rymer, Mary Weidner and Kimberly White
College of Information Technology and Engineering
Salam Hajjar, Ana Pena-Alvarez and Wook-Sung Yoo
College of Liberal Arts
Clara Adkins, Armand Affricano, Ida Day, Shoshannah Diehl, Nancy Jackson, Amber Jones, Wendi Kozma, Brian Lemley, Brittany McIntyre, Whitney Naylor-Smith, Sarah Nowak, Edwin Reyes Oporta, Nathan Rucker, Nicholas Shangler, John Stromski, Margaret Sullivan and Bethany Walters
College of Science
Ansam Al-Aqtash, Wyatt Brown, Robert Cooper, Andrea Duhon, Joseph Guttmann, John Markiewicz, Jennifer Markiewicz, Davide Mauro, Sean McBride, Matthew Mundell, Wendy Perkins, Vincent Smith, Zoe Stokes, Andre Wehner and Shane Welch
Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Kristi Aldridge, Maya Bitar, Jared Brownfield, Larry Carter, Matthew Christiansen, Mark Cooper, Matthew Curry, Carolyn Curtis, Edward Dachowski Jr., Amy Garmestani, Manik Goel, Jonathan Hill, Muhammed Jamil, Iheanyichukwu Ogu, Joey Roy, Steven Roy, Juan Sanabria, Vikram Shivkumar, Katherine Steele, James Thomas and Ashley Zawodniak
School of Pharmacy
Omar Attarabeen, Kenneth Canipe, Chelsea Gresham, Velvet Journigan, Lisa Nord and Michael Rudolph