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Monday, February 21, 2011

Norwich University Sullivan Museum and History Center’s spring series of Lunch’N’Learn programs

For Immediate Release
Feb. 18, 2011

Contact: Daphne Larkin
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The noontime programs are free, open to the public and light lunch snacks are served. Call the Museum at 802.485.2448 or 2183 for more information.


Tuesday, Feb. 22: The VT Haiti Project: Presenters Tim Singer and Donna Thomas of the VT Haiti Project will provide an update on current building conditions and health challenges in Haiti.

Thursday, March 10: Designing a Museum: Presenter Andrew Santaniello, AIA, NU’95 of Centerbrook Architects will share the challenges of the design team who created our very own NU Museum.

Thursday, March 24: Building a Story: Presenters Prof. Jeanne Beckwith, NU English Dept. and Prof. Arne Aho, NU Architecture Dept. will lead a discussion on the movie My Architect.

Wednesday, April 6: Touch the Shound at NU – Exhibit Opening: Join us to hear some music as we open an intriguing exhibit which demonstrates the “sounds” in various disciplines across campus.

Thursday, April 14: Amp it Up: Getting Musical Vibration Into the Sound System with NU Engineering Professor Michael Prairie presenting how vibrations are turned into electrical signals.

Tuesday, April 19: Sing and Be Free: Using Song to Invoke God, Forge Unity, and Change History during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-65: presented by NU History Professor Rowland Brucken.

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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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Norwich partners with NC community college to educate soldiers

For Immediate Release
Feb. 16, 2011

Contact: Daphne Larkin
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. –
Officials at Norwich University’s School of Graduate and Continuing Studies (SGCS) announced an agreement with Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) in North Carolina to educate Special Operations soldiers at nearby Fort Bragg.

The agreement will help facilitate soldier enrollment in a bachelor’s degree completion program at Norwich University, designed especially for the special operations community, through an articulation that recognizes associate’s degrees awarded by FTCC.

Offered online, the Norwich University bachelor’s degree completion program in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis (SSDA) was designed to meet the higher educational needs of active duty, National Guard, and Reserve personnel that have been assigned to one of the subordinate commands within the United States Special Operations Command. The program is also available to veterans of the command.

The SSDA bachelor’s degree builds on the military education and experience of US Special Operations Forces (SOF) in the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). A highly experiential program, it bridges soldiers’ unique military experiences in vital areas such as sociology-anthropology, geography, language, cultural awareness, regional politics, and international conflict with relevant coursework and allows them to complete recognized competencies in general education needed for the bachelor’s degree.

Located near Fort Bragg, FTCC educates soldiers from the base in classroom-based and online programs.

On Tuesday, Feb. 15, officials from Norwich, which is located in Northfield, Vt., and FTCC signed an articulation agreement stating that FTCC students who complete an associate’s degree may transfer 60 credits as a block towards the SSDA program and move seamlessly into the Norwich program to complete the Bachelor of Science degree.

The signing event took place at 3 P.M. on the FTCC campus in Fayetteville, NC, and was attended by officials from both colleges the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command. In remarks to attendees, Ray D. Walters, Dean of College Transfer and General Education stated that “today Fayetteville Technical Community College and Norwich University have set the standard for soldiers to seamlessly progress through their military and educational career.”

“We are pleased to work in partnership with FTCC to provide a coordinated and relevant educational opportunity for Special Operations Forces soldiers," said Dr. Bill Clements, dean of the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies. "FTCC has a long tradition of excellent service to the US military and was a natural partner in this endeavor to expand educational opportunities for our soldiers. We look forward to working together well into the future”

Attending on behalf of the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command was Chief of Staff Col. Terrell Parker II, who noted: “We are truly fortunate to have this educational opportunity for our soldiers, who serve as diplomats around the world and will benefit from the education they will receive at FTCC and Norwich University. We will see the benefits from this endeavor in our soldiers.”

Lt. Col. David Walton added that “increasingly the special forces soldier requires an education that goes beyond training, and the programs developed by FTCC and Norwich University will help significantly in this regard.”


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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

Norwich University’s School of Graduate and Continuing Studies (SGCS) builds upon the institution’s 191 year academic heritage with innovative online master’s degrees in a variety of areas. SGCS also offers a certificate in teaching and learning and a bachelor’s completion program. The programs are recognized throughout the industry for their rigor, small class size, high student satisfaction and retention. http://graduate.norwich.edu/

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Norwich launches site to support awareness campaign and marrow drives across the state

For Immediate Release
Feb. 10, 2011

Contact: Daphne Larkin
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. –
Norwich University officials announced the launch of a website "In Charlie’s Corner," to support a campaign to raise awareness about the national bone marrow registry and Marrow Donor Drives across the state to be held on Thursday, Feb. 17.

Norwich developed the mission of raising awareness of the need for marrow donors when Sports Information Director Charlie Crosby, who has been battling leukemia for nine years, learned that although for him there is a 93% chance of a donor match on a registry of over nine million, there currently is no match.

The campaign is named after Crosby’s popular “Charlie’s Corner” list serve that updates everything going on in Norwich athletics.

“I decided the only way I can make sense of this thing is if I do whatever I can to expand the registry to increase the chance of a match for anyone who needs it,” Crosby said.

For Crosby, a bone marrow transplant has a 55% chance of working, and if it works then it cures him completely. There is still time to find him a match.

“If becoming the face of this means that one person out there gets the transplant he or she needs, then it will have meaning for me,” he said.

Inspired by Crosby’s story, three donor drives have been scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 17:

• 12-6 p.m. in Norwich University’s Plumley Armory, sponsored by DKMS
• 10-2 p.m. at the Flynn Theater in Burlington and
• 12-6 p.m. at the Paramount Theater in Rutland, both sponsored by the Marrow Donor Program at Rutland Regional Medical Center

Participants at marrow drives take the first step toward registration with a simple mouth swab.

To learn more about the issue and donor criteria, please visit www.incharliescorner.org.

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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

Friday, February 4, 2011

Norwich announces two military history programs with battle “field” trips

For Immediate Release
Feb. 4, 2011

Contact: Daphne Larkin
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. –
Norwich University officials announced open registration for two upcoming experiential military history programs, called “staff rides,” to begin in March.

Organized through the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies’ (SGCS) Master of Arts in Military History (MMH), the programs begin with 11 weeks of instructor-led online learning and culminate in educational tours of historic Civil War battlefields.

A study of the Overland Campaign runs online from March 7 - May 22, and from May 15 - 21students from all over the country get together with the instructor to tour and examine the battlefields of the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg.

The instructor is Professor Chuck Sanders of Kansas State University, a retired US Army colonel and historian specializing in 19th century American history.

“We try to get students to see how the battlefield must have looked to the participants and why battles unfolded as they did,” said James Ehrman, MMH program director.

The second staff ride is an examination of the strategic decisions made during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, and the online course runs June – August culminating in an instructor-led tour of the battlefields.

Students, who must have earned a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in order to be eligible, may either audit the course or earn one graduate level credit for the successful completion of one of the programs.

About staff rides:

A staff ride was an exercise developed by the German General Staff in the 19th century. The general staff studied past campaigns to glean lessons from them and also traveled to the battlefields to explore them on horseback or on foot. The general staff felt their staff officers really only truly understood how and why campaigns and battles unfolded as they did if they had the opportunity to examine the terrain and see things from the perspective of the people they were studying. The US Army still uses staff rides as learning tools.

“Norwich was founded upon experiential learning, and we believe staff rides are an excellent way for students to learn more about Civil War battles,” Ehrman said.

To register, or learn more about the Overland Campaign program, please contact Benjamin Snipe at 802-485-2945, and for the Gettysburg or Master of Arts in Military History program, please contact Andrew Liptak at 802-485-2626.


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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

Norwich University’s School of Graduate and Continuing Studies (SGCS) builds upon the institution’s 191 year academic heritage with innovative online master’s degrees in a variety of areas. SGCS also offers a certificate in teaching and learning and a bachelor’s completion program. The programs are recognized throughout the industry for their rigor, small class size, high student satisfaction and retention. http://graduate.norwich.edu/

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Norwich University presents free lectures during the Spring 2011 Todd Lecture Series

For Immediate Release
Feb. 2, 2011

Contact: Daphne Larkin
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
dlarkin@norwich.edu

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NORTHFIELD, Vt. –
Norwich University presents a series of free events during the spring 2011 Todd Lecture Series, beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 9, and going through Monday, March 28.

The Todd Lecture Series is named in honor of US Army retired Maj. Gen. and Norwich President Emeritus W. Russell Todd, ‘50, and his wife, Carol, in gratitude for their dedicated service to the University. With this series, Norwich reaches out to bring important, significant lecturers to campus. All events are free and open to the public.

Spring 2011 Todd Lecture Series schedule:

• Wed., Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in Plumley Armory: Dr. David O. Carpenter
, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at U Albany’s School of Public Health
o Hosted by the School of Math and Science

• Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in Plumley Armory: Lieutenant General John F. Kelley, USMC, Commanding General of the Multi-National Force West in Iraq from Feb. 2008-Feb. 2009
o Hosted by the School of National Services

• Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in Dole Auditorium: Cynthia Enloe, Author/Director of Clark University’s Women Studies Program
o Hosted by the School of Humanities

• Thursday, Feb. 17 from 12-1 p.m. in Dole Auditorium: A panel discussion, “Sustainability – A National Security Issue”
o Hosted by the School of Social Sciences

• Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in Plumley Armory: Jim Champy, Author/leading authority on management issues
o Hosted by the School of Business and Management

• Monday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in Plumley Armory: Pliny Fisk III, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
o Hosted by the School of Architecture and Art

• Monday, March 28, time and location TBA: Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp, US Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
o Hosted by the School of Engineering

For more information please contact Mark Albury at malbury@norwich.edu or 802.485.2080.


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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

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Norwich Football: McIntyre resigns

For Immediate Release
Jan. 19, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
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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

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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