Muskingum University Associate Professor of Political Science Richard Arnold recently completed a five-month Fulbright Scholar experience in Poland, from September 2022 to February 2023.

Dr. Arnold’s research expertise is the post-Soviet region, particularly the Cossack movement and its role in both Ukrainian and Russian national identity. In early 2022, he received a Fulbright grant for teaching and study in Ukraine. His experience was relocated to Poland after war was declared.

Muskingum University will hold its fifth annual Day of Giving, beginning March 14 at 6:00 a.m. and continuing for 1,837 minutes of celebration until 12:37 p.m. March 15, 2023.

This year’s Day of Giving theme is ALL IN for Muskingum. Our Muskies are ALL IN for their classroom, co-curricular, and athletic activities, and our faculty and staff are ALL IN for our students.

You can join us and go ALL IN by donating to any of these five vital areas.

Laudations is an online collection spotlighting the professional contributions Muskingum University faculty and staff make to their respective disciplines.

ART

Works by Morgan Free, Assistant Professor of 3D Art, are displayed in a solo exhibition entitled “Loving Something Doomed” at the Firelands Association for Visual Arts (FAVA) Gallery in Oberlin, Ohio, from February 14-April 2, 2023. The closing reception is April 1 from 1-3 p.m.

Muskingum University music students presented their first road performance tour since the pandemic.

The Wind Ensemble conducted by Associate Professor of Music Dr. David Turrill, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers conducted by Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Daniel Strychacz, and Muskie Rocks conducted by Professor of Music Dr. Laura Schumann launched their tour on campus with a concert in Brown Chapel on March 1.

Several Muskingum University students have been recognized for their outstanding work at the Region Two Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, held in January 2023.

Theatre and Media Production major Kailyn Shalosky ’24 won first place in Lighting Design for The Secret in the Wings. This award qualifies Kailyn to attend the National Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, to be held in April 2023 in Washington, D.C.

Muskingum University Associate Professor of History Alistair Hattingh recently delivered two invited talks on African culture for the commUNITYread program of the Muskingum County Library System.

The talks were in support of this year’s commUNITYread book, A Princess Found, by Sarah Culberson, which tells her story of growing up as an adopted child in West Virginia, and of her journey to meet her birth father in Sierra Leone.