McCoy Professor

Kevin L. Pate, Ph.D., an assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a McCoy Professor at Marietta College. The most prestigious teaching award given by the College, designation as a McCoy Professor recognizes Pate as an outstanding teacher.

Tim Catalano and Kevin Pate were part of the same faculty cohort that arrived at Marietta College in the fall of 2001. Both of them are respected “veteran” faculty members today — Catalano in the English Department and Pate in the Chemistry Department. Recently, they learned how much their efforts and contributions in and out of the...

When Dr. Alane Sanders first learned she was selected to be a McCoy Associate Professor of Communication, her first instinct was to tell her students. “I felt we had earned the honor together and I wanted them to feel that sense of accomplishment,” she said.

Dancing in the provost’s office is not a normal sight. Sometimes, though, you have to throw protocol out the window and just do what feels right. Upon learning she would be the 2013 McCoy Professor, Dr. Cathy Mowrer couldn’t control her emotions.

Nicole Livengood describes her style of teaching as “energetic.” As an English professor, Dr. Livengood teaches students from a variety of majors. She said her interactive lectures help her engage her students. Livengood recently was named a 2019 McCoy Professor, the highest honor bestowed on professors at Marietta College. Biology...

In a span of about 48 hours, Paul Daniell and Suzanne Parsons learned they had been recommended for tenure and were named the 2016 McCoy Professors. “That was an interesting two days,” said Daniell, who teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and advanced heat transfer, as well as other classes in the Edwy R. Brown Department of Petroleum...