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Business professors win award for published manuscript

Story by Emily Williams, Contributing writer Murray State professors Murphy Smith, Katherine Taken Smith and Stefan Linnhoff of the Arthur J. Bauernfiend College of Business were awarded the KPMG Outstanding Published Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Work-Life Balance Section. Murphy Smith said the team’s award-winning paper “A Longitudinal Analysis of Read More

Thou shall not steel

Award-winning documentary makes case for inventor of modern steel Story by Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor Inventors. Science. Tragedy. British secret agents. Essentially, these are all the elements found in a “Bond film,” Todd Hatton, WKMS news producer, said in reference to the national award-winning William Kelly audio documentary, which aired in May 2015. “Western Kentucky: A Birth Read More

OSH students awarded national scholarships

Story by Alisha Kempher, Contributing writer The American Society of Safety Engineers Foundation (ASSE) awarded 106 occupational safety and health students across the United States scholarships this month. Eleven of those students are from Murray State, which is the highest amount of scholarships given to one university this year. Murray State has an ASSE student chapter that Read More

Alumni Association hosts dinner for distinguished graduates

Alicia Steele, Assistant News Editor The Murray State Alumni Association hosted its annual 2016 Distinguished Alumnus award dinner Friday in the Murray Room of the CFSB Center. This year, Murray State recognized four graduates as distinguished alumni: David Beck, class of 1977; Bill Cunningham, class of 1966; Janice Padgett Harper-Smith, class of 1963 and 1968; Dennis Read More

McReynolds awarded LGBT ‘Ally of the Year’

Story by Ashley Traylor, Staff writer Derrick McReynolds, associate director of Housing and Residence Life, said he was taken aback when the Murray State Alliance named him the Jane Etheridge Ally of the Year award recipient. “It’s one of those things folks recognize you for that you really don’t see because for you, it’s just what you Read More

Accounting professors win research award

Story by Bailey Bohannan, Staff writer Honors graduate Jenifer Axtell and business professors Wayne Tervo and Murphy Smith collaborated and put together “The Advent of Accounting: A Historical Analysis.” This began as an Axtell’s thesis in 2014 and has now won the Distinguished Research Award 2015 at the Allied Academies Fall Conference this past October in Las Read More

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