Marvin Lamb (’72 M.M.), Norman, Oklahoma, has been inducted into the 2025 class of the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society Hall of Fame. In 2024, he concluded a 50-year career in higher education teaching and administration, the last 27 of which were at the University of Oklahoma. From 1998 to 2005, he served as dean of the Weitzenhoffer College of Fine Arts, where he oversaw the completion of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Performing Arts. He then served as head of music composition programs in the School of Music and conducted the New Music Ensemble. He was appointed a Presidential Professor in 2019 and named Professor Emeritus in 2025. His orchestral, wind band and chamber music has been performed in Europe, North and South America, Mexico, Japan and Russia. He is published by Carl Fischer Inc. and included in the Fleischer Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia. He is recorded on multiple CDs and streamed internationally by Parma Recordings, where he is also on the Parma artist roster. He has twice received composition fellowships to the Charles Ives Center for American Music. At UNT, he was a music composition major who studied under William P. Latham and John Haynie in the College of Music.