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Dionte Berry News Editor [email protected] The Board of Regents convened in Heritage Hall for its quarterly spring meeting on Friday, June 4. The topic of tuition for the 21-22 academic year continued from the Board’s April meeting. In addition they discussed and voted on a handful of other matters such… ....
Band performs first live concert after a year Posted By: Features Editor April 28, 2021 Ciara Fuson [email protected] After streaming performances for over a year, the Murray State department of music had their first live concert on Thursday, April 22. The Bright Days Ahead spring concert, organized by Director of Bands Trae Blanco, introduced live music back to campus after 14 months. The concert took place at 6 p.m. on the lawn next to Waterfield Library and drew a crowd of students, faculty, alumni and community members. Music department students said that live performances are the best way to showcase their hard work. ....
Advertising professor retires after 47 years Posted By: Features Editor April 28, 2021 Simon Elfrink [email protected] Murray State’s department of journalism and mass communications has spent the spring semester preparing to send off Robert Valentine, who has been an instructor in Wilson Hall since 1974. Valentine explained his move from New York to Kentucky was not a linear decision. After bouncing around the nation for business opportunities for his father, the Valentines eventually wound up in Bowling Green, Kentucky for a while. “We got here at the end of my fourth grade year,” Valentine said. “I graduated high school in Bowling Green.” ....
Students give grant to Murray Art Guild Posted By: News Editor February 4, 2021 Ben Overby [email protected] The Murray State nonprofit leadership studies program presented the 2020 Giving Back Endowment Grant Award to the Murray Art Guild Community Art Center. According to a press release sent by the University, the Murray Art Guild received the $3,000 grant for its success in youth development over a long period of time in the Murray community. The award was presented on Nov. 10 by nonprofit leadership studies students. Debi Henry Danielson, executive director of the Murray Art Guild, said the grant money will directly support their youth development programming. ....
Four Murray State University journalism and mass communication students have been selected to participate in the first WKMS investigative reporting fellowship for the spring semester. The fellowship is a partnership between the Murray State department of journalism and mass communications and WKMS. Jared Bennett, an investigative reporter with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in Louisville, will guide the students through the investigative reporting process and help them produce stories that could air on WKMS and on the WKMS website. Students are Edie Greenberg, a senior journalism major from Louisville, Kentucky; Molly Dowell, a senior organizational communication major from Hardinsburg, Kentucky; Dustin Wilcox, a junior journalism major from Hopkinsville, Kentucky; and Kati Wyant, a sophomore journalism major from Murray, Kentucky. ....