MU faculty have a large variety of federal, state and private research funding including NIH, USDA, USACE, NSF-EPSCoR, etc.

Marshall's commitment to the economic development of the region is demonstrated with the establishment of the Institute for Development of Entrepreneurial Advances (IDEA). IDEA's primary focus is the commercialization of technology and science developed on the Marshall campus and in the region.
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Partnerships including EPA, WV DEP, and US Army Corps of Engineers provide multi-institutional studies using advanced DNA technologies to identify variations in bacterial contamination as well as Microbial Source Tracking in the Ohio River
 

We are the first university to partner with a state crime laboratory on developing and maintaining a CODIS database and have a pool of highly trained graduates who work in our CODIS Laboratories, giving us one of the highest skilled DNA workforces in the country.