Featured Student: Malcolm Jones

Name:  Malcolm Jones   Year:  Senior   Major/Minor: Liberal Arts Major, Gender and Diversity Studies Minor   Quirky Fact: I love to work with Campus Lights   What is your favorite food or drink to get on campus? The Taco Salad at T-room and the SOBE Life Water!   What is your favorite Movie or …

Featured Staff: Catie Bates

Catie Bates is an administrative assistant with the Murray State University Psychological Center, a facility on campus which provides counseling, therapy and testing services to the Murray region while also training the next generation of mental health professionals in conjunction with the Department of Psychology. Bates’s familiarity with Murray State began well before her work …

Featured Student: Will Crabtree

Name: Will Crabtree   Year: Senior   Major/Minor: Double Major in Psychology and Sociology   Quirky Fact: I taught myself to play guitar, bass, and the ukulele with no lessons.   What is your favorite food or drink to get on campus? Chicken Tenders from T-room   What is your favorite Movie or Book? Pulp …

CHFA professors collaborate to team teach

As iron sharpens iron, professors in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts have found that collaborating with their colleagues in other departments can result in interdisciplinary lesson plans which explore complex issues and promote discussions, activities and assignments more beneficial than the normal university lecture. Professors Diane Nititham (sociology), Danielle Nielsen (English) and Marc …

CHFA Study Abroad

When it comes to education abroad, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts is a university leader. CHFA affords students opportunities to study a diverse range of subjects in cities located around the world, offering multidisciplinary courses and cultural immersion that would be impossible to recreate in the United States. In conjunction with the Murray …

Featured Student: Abby Rock

Name: My name is Abby Rock   Year: This is my second year at Murray State but I’m a Junior by credits.   Major/Minor: My major is Political Science/Pre-Professional Legal Studies.  I know that’s a mouthful but basically I’m just a political science and pre-law student.   Quirky Fact: I have a puppy that lives …

New CHFA Faculty: Part II

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts welcomed eleven new faculty this year and this post features the final five!  As you learn about their many accomplishments and preferences for beverages, pets and holidays, please reach out to them and help us welcome them to our college! Todd Herzberg: Art & Design, Assistant Professor, Foundation …

Featured Student: Caroline Mikez

Name: Caroline Alisa Mikez   Year: Senior- Graduates in December   Major/Minor: History major, Archaeology minor   Quirky Fact: I have 6 cats (not by choice) and a 12 year-old son   What is your favorite food or drink to get on campus? Loaded BBQ sidewinders at Lucky’s   What is your favorite movie or …