Nov. 24, 2010
Nearly 1,100 Students To Graduate From Marshall In December
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Nearly 1,100 students will graduate from Marshall University on Sunday, Dec. 5, when the university celebrates its 2010 Winter Commencement at Cam Henderson Center on MU’s Huntington campus. The ceremony begins at 2 p.m.
Among the 1,069 students receiving degrees are 650 undergraduates, 414 with graduate degrees and five from the School of Medicine. The Winter Commencement will honor graduates from July and August 2010, and tentative December 2010 graduates.
Graduates will be recognized individually at the Winter Commencement. They will walk to the area in front of the stage, where their names will be announced, and they will receive congratulations and a scroll from the Marshall Alumni Association.
Registrar Roberta Ferguson said 159 students will graduate with honors. Fifteen will graduate summa cum laude (3.85 to 4.0 GPA), 46 magna cum laude (3.6 to 3.84 GPA), and 90 cum laude (3.3 to 3.59 GPA). Two students receiving associate degrees will graduate with high honors, and six associate degree recipients will graduate with honors.
Based on tentative grade point averages, three students will complete their baccalaureate degrees with perfect 4.0 GPAs. They are April Ann Crouse of Culloden, West Virginia, Truc Thai Thanh Pham of Huntington, and Arianna Cathena Price of Gerrardstown, West Virginia.
Dr. Bonita Lawrence, the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia’s 2009 Professor of the Year, will deliver the keynote address.
Lawrence has been at Marshall since August 2001 when she was hired as an assistant professor of mathematics. She was promoted to associate professor in 2003, granted tenure in 2005 and promoted to professor in 2007. She received the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award for 2001 and 2006, the Marshall and Shirley Reynolds Outstanding Teacher Award for 2004 and the Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1979 from Cameron University in Lawton, Okla., her Master of Science in Mathematics in 1990 from Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., and her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences in 1994 from the University of Texas at Arlington.
DVDs available
Marshall University will make available DVDs of 2010 Winter Commencement. Nancy Pelphrey, Marshall University’s coordinator of alumni programs, said a table with order forms will be set up in the upstairs lobby of Henderson Center from 1 p.m. until commencement is over. DVDs cost $15 each, and payment can be made by using Visa, MasterCard, Discover or cash, or by check made payable to the Marshall University Alumni Association.
The DVDs will be produced by Marshall University Instructional Television Services. For more information, contact Pelphrey at 304-696-3134.
Parking
Free parking for commencement will be available in the garage across 3rd Avenue from Cam Henderson Center, or on any university parking lot. The garage and the Joan C. Edwards Stadium West Lot provide the most convenient parking.
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Nearly 1,100 Students To Graduate From Marshall In December
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Nearly 1,100 students will graduate from Marshall University on Sunday, Dec. 5, when the university celebrates its 2010 Winter Commencement at Cam Henderson Center on MU’s Huntington campus. The ceremony begins at 2 p.m.
Among the 1,069 students receiving degrees are 650 undergraduates, 414 with graduate degrees and five from the School of Medicine. The Winter Commencement will honor graduates from July and August 2010, and tentative December 2010 graduates.
Graduates will be recognized individually at the Winter Commencement. They will walk to the area in front of the stage, where their names will be announced, and they will receive congratulations and a scroll from the Marshall Alumni Association.
Registrar Roberta Ferguson said 159 students will graduate with honors. Fifteen will graduate summa cum laude (3.85 to 4.0 GPA), 46 magna cum laude (3.6 to 3.84 GPA), and 90 cum laude (3.3 to 3.59 GPA). Two students receiving associate degrees will graduate with high honors, and six associate degree recipients will graduate with honors.
Based on tentative grade point averages, three students will complete their baccalaureate degrees with perfect 4.0 GPAs. They are April Ann Crouse of Culloden, West Virginia, Truc Thai Thanh Pham of Huntington, and Arianna Cathena Price of Gerrardstown, West Virginia.
Dr. Bonita Lawrence, the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia’s 2009 Professor of the Year, will deliver the keynote address.
Lawrence has been at Marshall since August 2001 when she was hired as an assistant professor of mathematics. She was promoted to associate professor in 2003, granted tenure in 2005 and promoted to professor in 2007. She received the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award for 2001 and 2006, the Marshall and Shirley Reynolds Outstanding Teacher Award for 2004 and the Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1979 from Cameron University in Lawton, Okla., her Master of Science in Mathematics in 1990 from Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., and her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences in 1994 from the University of Texas at Arlington.
DVDs available
Marshall University will make available DVDs of 2010 Winter Commencement. Nancy Pelphrey, Marshall University’s coordinator of alumni programs, said a table with order forms will be set up in the upstairs lobby of Henderson Center from 1 p.m. until commencement is over. DVDs cost $15 each, and payment can be made by using Visa, MasterCard, Discover or cash, or by check made payable to the Marshall University Alumni Association.
The DVDs will be produced by Marshall University Instructional Television Services. For more information, contact Pelphrey at 304-696-3134.
Parking
Free parking for commencement will be available in the garage across 3rd Avenue from Cam Henderson Center, or on any university parking lot. The garage and the Joan C. Edwards Stadium West Lot provide the most convenient parking.
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