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MARSHALL UNIVERSITY
Larsen serving as Drinko Academy Fellow at MU
HUNTINGTON -- Eldon Larsen, a professor of engineering at Marshall University, is serving as the 2009-2010 Drinko Academy Fellow.
Drinko Fellows receive reduced teaching loads to undertake research or curriculum development. Larsen will be completing work on a textbook on project management.
The Drinko Academy was founded in 1985 by John Deaver Drinko, a Marshall alumnus and noted attorney, when he and his wife, Elizabeth Gibson Drinko, established a million-dollar chair, the university's first, in the College of Liberal Arts. The initial program proved so successful that in the spring of 1994, the Drinko Chair was redesigned, enlarged and renamed to encompass revised objectives.
Larsen has three degrees in chemical engineering, a B.S. and an M.S. from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a development and project scientist and senior engineer for Union Carbide Corporation before becoming a full-time faculty member at Marshall University in 1999.
