Barb Burdge and Lucas Dargo have been elected to serve as chairs of the newly formed Faculty Executive Committee. Burdge will serve as chair in the 2022-2023 academic year.  Dargo will be chair elect for the coming academic year and then assume the chair role the following year.  

The following faculty have also been elected to serve as FEC representatives:  

Fort Wayne campus: Kathryn Marwitz, Trent Towne

North Manchester campus: Tim Brauch, Kathy Davis. Michael Staudenmaier

At- Large:
Justin Lasser

Three Manchester University students were selected for the 2022 College Band Director’s National Association Intercollegiate Band. They are senior music performance major Jennifer Wagner (flute), junior music education major Alexis Crawford (French horn) and junior music performance major Mason Kniola (tuba). The event takes place April 7-9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

They join students selected from colleges and universities across 10 different states in CBDNA’s north central division. They have intensive rehearsals for three days, culminating in a performance on the UW campus under the baton of Rebecca Phillips, professor of music and director of bands at Colorado State University.

Communication studies faculty member Mary Lahman, Michelle Calka and Tim McKenna-Buchanan were in Madison, Wisconsin, March 31-April 3 for the Central States Communication Association Annual Convention. Professor Lahman and Associate Professor McKenna-Buchanan, along with colleagues from Denison University and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, led a short course for faculty entitled, “Connecting Educators for Cooperative Inquiry: Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Educator and Student Learning Identities and Growth Experiences.”

McKenna-Buchanan was also part of the “Melissa Beall Award Top Panel”: Re-Connecting on the Front Porch: Re-examining the Positioning of Basic Course in General Education "Post" Pandemic.

Associate Professor Calka was a respondent for the "Media, Memes, and Digital Spaces" Paper Session and a presenter for the "Media Studies Interest Group: Re-Connect Networking Session."

First-year Manchester University students Kora Beasley and Ruby Rusk were selected as participants in the Next Gen Leadership Institute with Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana (YLNI).

The two-day program offered students ages 18-22 the experience to learn skills in leadership development, networking and community building.

Posted March 29 -- A South Decatur senior has been awarded the full-ride Honors Scholarship at Manchester. He hopes to become pediatrician. Learn more.

Posted March 25 -- Leslie Marlatt, assistant director of success advising at Manchester University, is among those selected to participate in the 2022 Leadership Institute of the Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana (YLNI). Learn more.

Updated March 21 -- Valeria Jimenez, a first-generation college student at Manchester, has been awarded a “Realizing the Dream” scholarship from the Independent Colleges of Indiana. 
She is a sophomore from Akron, Indiana, majoring in psychology and psychology & religious culture.
Watch her video from ICI. 

Posted March 21 -- Lucas Dargo, director of the Athletic Training Program at Manchester University, is among those selected to participate in the 2022 Leadership Institute of the Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana (YLNI). Learn more.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) recently announced 4,988 individuals matched with 2,430 pharmacy residency programs across the country in Phase I of ASHP’s 2022 Pharmacy Residency Match.

At Manchster, 10 fourth-year students were matched with PGY1 residency programs Two graduates from the class of 2021 will complete PGY2 residencies:

• Eric Beard - Lutheran Hospital of Indiana; Fort Wayne, IN
• Ermina Begovic- Saint Joseph Health System Family Medicine Center; Mishawaka, IN (PGY2)
• Mark Botros - Aurora Health Care/St. Luke's Medical Center; Milwaukee, WI
• Sarah Iskander – Ascension Borgess Hospital; Kalamazoo, MI
• May Joseph – Lutheran Hospital of Indiana; Fort Wayne, IN
• Zachary Martin - Saint Joseph Health System Family Medicine Center; Mishawaka, IN
• Daniel Reyes – Ohio Northern University HealthWise; Ada, OH
• Dakota Smith - Norton Hospitals; Louisville, KY
• Brianna Stafford - Indiana University Health; Indianapolis, IN
• Blain Thayer - Huntsville Hospital; Huntsville, AL (PGY2)
• Sherry Wong – Community Healthcare System/Community Hospital; Munster, IN
• Judy Truong will complete a drug information residency at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.

Posted March 18 -- On March 19, Teri Beam and Laura Bollinger present their talk, “The science of nutrigenomics and its translation into practice,” at the 2022 Northeast Indiana Sports Medicine Symposium.