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07/04/2023

06/16/2023

Congratulations to Murray State basketball legend, Popeye Jones and the Denver Nuggets on their NBA CHAMPIONSHIP! 🏆 🏇

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04/06/2022

04/01/2022

Thanks to everyone who came out for last night’s reading! Our last guest author reading will take place on Thursday, April 14 at 7pm in the Waterfield Library Gallery. Kentucky author and Murray State MFA program alum will read from her work!

Jayne Moore Waldrop is a Kentucky writer and attorney. She knows her home state from end to end, having grown up in far western Kentucky in a family of displaced Appalachians who returned home often to visit eastern Kentucky. She’s also lived and practiced law in Louisville, and she’s been an enthusiastic member of Lexington’s writing community since moving to central Kentucky.

She is the author of Retracing My Steps, a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series, and Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems, both published by Finishing Line Press. Her linked story collection, Drowned Town, was published in 2021 by University Press of Kentucky through its Fireside Industries imprint, a partnership with Hindman Settlement School.

Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact of loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound together by monumental changes to the western Kentucky and Tennessee landscape. In the mid-twentieth century, giant lakes filled when the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers were dammed, submerging towns and dislocating people. More were forced out to make way for the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. The interwoven narrative emphasizes the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world.

Fellow Kentucky author Bobbie Ann Mason writes of Drowned Town, “In graceful prose, dotted with zingers and surprises, Jayne Moore Waldrop weaves a modern story of reconciliation and hope around this heartbreaking history. I’m impressed by her undaunted plunge into the subject and the compelling fiction she comes up with.”

11/23/2021

Congratulations to Drs. Stephanie Schaaf and Nikki Ga***rd on their American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) conference presentations. Dr. Ga***rd presented, “Standing United Against Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas” and Dr. Ga***rd and Dr. Schaaf presented, “Supervision Tech Tools to Efficiently Maximize Clinical Growth.”

11/03/2021

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Melony Shemberger for winning the 2021 Stephen B. White Award for Shared Governance. Provost Tim Todd presented the award to Melony at today's Faculty Senate meeting.

Faculty and staff members (University-wide) are nominated by their peers for this award and then voted on by members of the Faculty Senate. Quoting from the award criteria: The award recognizes faculty or staff members who have contributed in the area of shared governance in a way that either exceeds what is expected of an individual in his or her position or that significantly reimagines, invigorates, or expands the scope of shared governance.

Congratulations, Melony! Thank you for your very hard work.

10/13/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Qualls, JMC chairman, on earning an award of excellence in the Faculty Film and Video Competition during the Broadcast Education Association On-Location's Creative Competition this week.

10/05/2021

It's National Medical Librarians Month!

09/27/2021

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08/20/2021

https://msublueandgold.org/2021/08/murray-state-university-chemistry-professor-named-as-fulbright-specialist/

Congratulations, Dr. Bommanna Loganathan!

MURRAY, Ky. — Dr. Bommanna Loganathan, professor of chemistry at Murray State University, has been accepted to the Fulbright Specialist program and will be on the Fulbright Specialist roster for a tenure of four years. The highly selective Fulbright Specialist program is an initiative of the U.S. ...