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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Norwich Football: McIntyre resigns

For Immediate Release
Jan. 19, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. –
Norwich University officials announced today the head coach of the football team, Shawn McIntyre, has resigned to pursue a professional opportunity in athletics manufacturing.

Officials have named Mark Murnyack, the defensive coordinator, as interim coach and have launched a search to fill the position.

“We are sad to see Coach McIntyre go; he has done a magnificent job leading NU football, earning the inaugural conference championship in 2009 and a hosting an ECAC bowl game in 2010. However, this is a wonderful professional opportunity for him and an opportunity for us to take the Norwich football program to the next level,” said Athletic Director, Tony Mariano.

“With the completion of Doyle Hall, student-athletes have new locker rooms, the athletics staff has new offices, and we look forward to someday having an all-season playing field and upgraded facilities. This program has a bright future,” he added.

McIntyre completed his sixth season coaching the Cadets this fall. A 1998 graduate, he played football for two years as an offensive lineman.

“It is really tough for me to leave Norwich after playing on the team as a Cadet and then coaching these fine young men for the past six seasons,” McIntyre said. “A lot of factors went into this decision, and I have faith the football program can move forward in strength and unity.”

Murnyack, who just completed his ninth Norwich coaching season and has served as the Cadets’ director of football operations, will prepare the team for the upcoming season, oversee recruiting efforts and provide a bridge to the next head football coach.

Murnyack was a four-year letter winner at his alma mater, Juniata College, and served as team captain for two seasons before graduating in 1996.

About taking on the role of interim coach, Murnyack said: “I know this team; I believe in this team and I am honored and ready to lead them into the next phase of their development.”

“Mark was selected for his ability to maintain the positive momentum of the last several seasons with the returning team, his experience to work with admissions to bring in a great freshman class, and deliver a positive spring program for our football student-athletes,” Mariano said. “I have great faith that Mark will work well with his staff, with the players, and with admissions to further NU football this spring. NU football is in good hands.”

Editor’s note: Please find attached a round-up of McIntyre’s coaching career. Also, photos of McIntyre are available upon request.

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Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Norwich announces Faculty Development Prize

For Immediate Release
Jan. 18, 2011

Contact: Daphne Larkin
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. –
The Norwich University Faculty Development Committee announced today that Dr. Jeremy Hansen, assistant professor of computer science, will receive this year’s $8,000 stipend for the Board of Fellows Faculty Development Prize.

Hansen’s research project, entitled “Opportunistic and Ultra-Mobile Applications,” aims to create a framework that allows computer applications to be individually hibernated, securely moved from one computer to another, and then started back up where they left off.

Hansen envisions the “hibernate” option to be built into computer operating systems.

“In windows you have the minimize/maximize/close option,” Hansen explained. “You could have ‘hibernate’ and save it as a file, put it on the internet and open it on a different device.

“This is unique in this particular combination; there are ways to do it through virtualization wrapping it on top of other applications but doing it this way is unique. Nobody’s ever combined them in this way before.”

Hansen’s research will begin in a class he teaches on networking in which students will have an opportunity for a group project to work on building a network with him that moves applications from one network to another.

Then Hansen will spend the summer on the operating system side, getting the applications to hibernate.

"Dr. Hansen's project is once again pushing the envelope of ‘computer/device’ usage and exemplifies the excellent academic leadership that benefits our students and the entire Norwich community,” said Jeffrey Holden, vice chairman of the BOF.

The BOF Faculty Development Prize is funded annually by the BOF in its role of stimulating and rewarding the University Faculty for creative and pragmatic research efforts.

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Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu