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“What each faculty member has in common is their brilliance and enthusiasm for learning,” President Richard F. Giese said at the Faculty Research Forum held last evening at Mount Union College.

Under the guidance of professor of political science, Dr. Jack DeSario, Mount Union graduates Derek Gordon and Lindsay Molnar have been able to obtain positions with the Office of Mayor William J. Healy in Canton, Ohio. Gordon is a referral and research specialist and Molnar is an executive assistant for Mayor Healy.

The Mount Union College Department of Psychology will hold its annual Mental Health Awareness Talk on Wednesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. in Campus Grounds of the Hoover-Price Campus Center. The speaker for the event is Jeff Bell. Bell will be speaking about his experiences living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Mount Union College student, Melonie Jurcevic, a senior English major from Parma is interning at Double R Productions in Washington D.C.

More than 200 top science students in grades 7-12 from Stark, Tuscarawas and Carroll counties will attend the Science Day and Engineering Fair on Saturday, March 29 at Mount Union College.

Mount Union College will be hosting the Solaris Wind Quintet on Monday April 7 at 8 p.m. in Presser Recital Hall.

Mount Union College will present a Faculty Research Forum on Thursday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in Chapman Hall, Room 110/111. Presenting their research will be faculty members Dr. Leonard Epp, Dr. Ann Ritchey and Dr. John Kirchmeyer.

Dr. Rebecca Stevens was the featured speaker for the fourth session of LINC, the college-community luncheon series featuring Mount Union College professors and community members discussing current topics, held Tuesday in the Hoover-Price Campus Center.

Patricia McDonald Cultural Competency Workshops will be held on Monday, March 24 and Tuesday, March 25 at Mount Union College. All sessions will be held in Campus Grounds of the Hoover-Price Campus Center.

Amy Tomko, vice president for enrollment services, was selected as the winner of the 2008 Spirit of Enterprise Award by the Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce. Tomko was presented with this honor at the recent Business Alliance Awards luncheon.

Mount Union College students are invited to attend the annual Health Fair for Students March 26 from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the East Room and the Alumni Room of the Hoover Price Campus Center.

“I never dreamed that I would be here when I was a boy on a farm down in Southwest Stark County milking cows,” Republican Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula said to the Mount Union students touring the capital building while on the multicultural retreat in Washington D.C. during the College’s spring break last week.

For the first time in nearly a century, Mount Union College plans to offer master’s level coursework. Approved by the Mount Union faculty and Board of Trustees, the College’s new Physician Assistant Program will welcome its first students in the summer of 2009.

Works by Mount Union College students will be on display during the Annual Student Art Show in Crandall Art Gallery from March 17 through April 3. The students, representing a number of major fields of study, designed the pieces displayed in the exhibit, which include drawings, paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

Top science students from grades 7-12 from Stark, Tuscarawas and Carroll counties will attend the Science Day and Science and Engineering Fair, which will be held in the Timken Physical Education Building at Mount Union College on March 29.