U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson brought the MVSU Department of Mass Communications to national attention by highlighting the accomplishments of two prominent members of the faculty.
“I never thought that one day, my name would be mentioned on the floor of the Congress of the United States,” said Dr. Samuel Osunde, department chair of mass communications.
Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Kathie Stromile Golden received an honorary doctorate during a trip to solidify the relationship between MVSU and Caucasus International University (CIU) in Tblisi, Georgia. Dr. Golden had just finished delivering a lecture on the roll of small-state and non-state actors in the contemporary world order when administrators from CIU surprised her with the honor.
“I was taken completely by surprise,” she said.
Dr. Deborah Ford, Professor of English, received a 2014 summer research grant from Mississippi Valley State University to work in the archives of the Dodd Center at the U of Connecticut on the papers of Allen Polite, an expatriate African American poet.
During the second full week of April, Mississippi Valley State will begin hosting several activities for its 2015 International Week. The week’s activities are meant to highlight the international diversity of the campus, exposing members of the university and the greater community to cultures and ideas that they may not be familiar with.
“We hope that International Week will encourage people to think more broadly about the world in which we live,” said Dr. Kathie Golden, associate vice president of academic affairs at Mississippi Valley State.
Three Valley students will travel to Germany this summer as part of a program intended to train musicians for careers in musical performance.
All three students are members of the “Valley Singers,” the exclusive group of singers chosen to represent the university at special events such as Green and White Day and the First Lady’s Luncheon.
