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COLLEGE WELCOMES THREE NEW EMPLOYEES |
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December 12, 2006
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College recently welcomed three new employees: Director of Financial Aid Thomas G. Ball ’88, Director of the Department of Entrepreneurship Dr. David Miller-Martini and Adjunct Research Professor of Biology Dr. Richard Darsie. Darsie started in November, and Ball and Miller-Martini began this month.
Although Ball grew up in a military family, he settled in Fishertown, Pa., after his father retired. He graduated from Grove City College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and religion and earned a master’s degree in political science from the Pennsylvania State University. He has more than 15 years of experience in the financial field, particularly in higher education and financial aid. Prior to returning to Grove City College, Ball served as director of financial aid at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., and Community College of Allegheny County in West Mifflin, Pa.
Miller-Martini oversees the entrepreneurship department with Dr. Jim Dupree, executive director. He started his post Dec. 1 and will also teach part-time as an associate professor of entrepreneurship. Miller-Martini earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from D’Youville College, a master’s degree from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Texas’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Miller-Martini has 17 years of research and development experience and has been the chief executive officer of a technology start-up company. He recently spent seven and a half years in Hong Kong working with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Biotechnical Research Institute.
Darsie, who is joining the College as a part-time faculty member, is an internationally renowned mosquito taxonomist. In addition to conducting his research in entomology, Darsie will have the opportunity to work with biology students and faculty in their research projects and serve as an occasional guest lecturer in biology courses. Darsie has taught at the University of Florida and the University of South Carolina, following a career as a research entomologist and chief of vector-borne disease training at the Centers for Disease Control. Darsie began his career as an instructor in the biology department at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. A World War II U.S. Air Force veteran, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany College, a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
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