News

• Today begins the 94th Commencement Ceremonies at RMU. Graduate commencement is today, May 10, at 4 p.m. and undergraduate commencement is tomorrow, May 11, at 9:30 a.m. If you cannot attend, the ceremonies will be live streamed at rmu.edu/live. For more info please visit rmu.edu/commencement.

• RMU has named alumnus Chris King our new vice president and director of athletics, effective June 1. King is currently director of intercollegiate athletics at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where last year he won the NACDA Under Armour Division I-AAA Athletic Director of the Year Award. A native of Apollo, Pa., KIng is a 1994 graduate of the RMU Sport Management Program, and he previously worked at the University of Central Florida and the University of Alabama. Read more about King here.

• The latest edition of RMU in the News has been published. Check out what Jill Maher, Brian O'Roark, and Phil Harold had to say to the Fourth Estate last month.

Upcoming Events

• The Center for Veteran's and Military Families invites you to the following ROTC events today, May 10 in the Yorktown Hall:
  Seven RMU students are Commissioning as 2nd Lieutenants in the U.S. Army, including, Daniel Delpha, Ciera Thompson, Jacob Weiland, Wesley St. Cyr, Abagail Santora, and Caleb Magowan.
  • 9 a.m. - Retirement of Major Anderson
  • 10 a.m. - United States Army Commission Ceremony

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