Mary Baldwin University to honor former president Cynthia Tyson
Published Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2021, 1:37 pm
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A $1 million gift from the Robert Haywood Morrison Foundation will endow the building that houses the Mary Baldwin University Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in honor of President Emerita Cynthia Haldenby Tyson.
MBU will dedicate the Cynthia Haldenby Tyson Hall with ceremonies Thursday at 3 p.m. on SMA Worth Field, located on the main MBU campus in Staunton.
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“Fun fact,” says Dr. Tashera Perry, an OB/GYN with Indiana University Health, adjunct clinical assistant professor for the IU School of Medicine, and the associate chief medical information officer for IU Health South Central Region. “I’m a high school dropout. I don’t actually have a high school diploma.”
When Perry, who grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, was in 10th grade, she was asked to join the Mary Baldwin College (now Mary Baldwin University) Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. She graduated cum laude in 2005 at the age of 20. She earned her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2011 and completed residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2015.
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COVID keeps Mary Baldwin virtual through Wednesday
STAUNTON Classes will remain all virtual through Wednesday at Mary Baldwin University.
In an email sent to the school community Monday, the Pandemic Team confirmed that 52 total new cases of COVID-19 were identified on the Staunton campus last week. That s 54.7% of the total cases confirmed since June 15, per the school s COVID dashboard.
The email said another 61 students have been identified as close contacts and are currently in quarantine.
Through contact tracing it was determined that the surge in cases did not occur from classroom exposure, per the email. These cases stemmed from students traveling off campus and bringing COVID back to their friends at MBU, read the email.