March 22, 2007

Around MC

Series benefactor to speak at lecture

            Marietta College alumnus Dr. Richard M. Krause ’47 will speak at the sixth annual Ellis L. and Jennie Mae Krause Lecture. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 2 in the McDonough Auditorium. Krause’s lecture is entitled The Origin of AIDS and Other Plagues: With Apologies to Charles Darwin. The lecture will be free and open to the public

Author to open Marietta Lyceum

            Musician, illustrator and author Julie Zickefoose will be the first speaker in the new Marietta Lyceum series. Zickefoose will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 29 in the McDonough Auditorium. The inaugural Marietta Lyceum is free and open to the public.

            Zickefoose’s presentation will be on her most recent book Letters to Eden. Her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and the Smithsonian. She has also written articles for Country Journal and the locally published Bird Watcher’s Digest.

            The Marietta Lyceum will provide a venue for authors, artist and scholars in the Mid-Ohio Valley. The hope is that it will help enrich the artistic, cultural and intellectual climate of the region. For more information contact Dr. Mark Miller at ext. 4811 or Millerr@marietta.edu.

Seven faculty members receive tenure

            The Board of Trustees announced that seven professors received tenure, and four were promoted from assistant professors to associate professors.

            Faculty members who received tenure include Dr. Bill Bauer, Dr. David Brown, Dr. Richard Danford, Dr. Jack Hillwig, Dr. Dennis Kuhl, Dr. John Tynan and Dr. Ryan May.

            The four faculty members promoted from assistant professors to associate professors include Dr. Mary Barnas, Dr. Debra Egolf, Grace Johnson and Dr. Almuth Tschunko.

Juan Williams to speak on campus

            One of America’s leading political writers, Juan Williams, will speak on the former Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall and the First Amendment at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 5 in the McDonough Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council. The event is free and open to the public.

            Williams is a senior correspondent for National Public Radio and political analyst for Fox News Channel. Williams is also the author of three books and won an Emmy Award for TV documentary writing.