News

• Three marketing students were nominated for a WTT Young Leader Award in Switzerland. Dalton Faith, Abigail Watkins, and Kristina Parsons were part of a team with three Swiss students from FHS St. Gallen, Switzerland through the Joint U.S. Swiss Program. The team conducted a marketing research consulting project for Geberit North America and was chosen as a top three candidate of over 42 submitted projects. The team had two faculty advisors, Jill Kurp, department head and university professor of marketing, and Franziska Weis, professor of marketing management at FHS St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences. The awards ceremony will be held in a hybrid format, both on stage at the Tonhalle concert hall in Zürich and virtually. 
   
• RMU has partnered with Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania to offer a $1,000 scholarship to any student who participated in JA at the junior high or senior high level. The scholarship is renewable for up to four years, is available to transfer students, and is in addition to any other financial aid for which a student might be eligible. Read more here.
   
• The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management has published its new professional development catalog, and as always, classes and webinars are free to RMU employees with the exception of hands-on tech classes and individual clinics. Register online at rmu.edu/bcnmregistration and simply indicate in the comments section that you are an RMU employee to register for free classes. 
   
• RMU in the News has been updated, chock full of great coverage of the university from August. 
   

Upcoming Events

• All are invited to attend a Virtual Welcome Reception for the fall 2020 Visiting Documentary Filmmaker Makia Harper on September 14. From 1-2 p.m. join Harper at this Google Meet link. Harper is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker, media artist, and film/media professor. Her work explores the many social, emotional, and political issues that plague today’s society. During her stay at RMU Harper will screen some of her films, share her experiences as a filmmaker and teach a documentary production class.