Dr. Laura McCunn, Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Student Success Champion by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Student Success. She received the award surrounded by many of the chemistry majors who nominated her for encouraging students in the classroom and research lab. Congratulations!

Four College of Science faculty members participated in the Marshall Takeover of the Tristate STEM+M High School on Friday, April 19. Dr Holly Cyphert, Dr Sachiko McBride, Dr Shannon Miller-Mace, and Dr Anna Mummert. The 55 high school students experienced a full day of Marshall classes from 15 Marshall faculty from across the university.

Congratulations to Walker Tatum, recipient of the inaugural Current Student Dr. Ronald G. Area “3 C’s” Award! Presented on April 13th during the 85th Alumni Awards Banquet in the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall, this honor celebrates Walker’s exceptional commitment to Marshall University’s community, current students, and alumni. As Student Body President and a senior

DiscoverBMB 2024; Kolling traveled with Trace Clark, Sierra Lutz, Brendin Flinn, Garrett Shields, Jacob Blizzard, Jaxon Smith, and Aaron Grimmett to DiscoverBMB (the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting) in San Antonio, TX. All 7 students presented posters on their tardigrade-based research in the Kolling Lab.

Congratulations to Paul Summers for being awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship! The NGFP supports and recognizes outstanding graduate students who are pursing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in NSF – supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics discipline at an accredited U.S. Institution. Paul graduated from Marshall University with a B.S. in Geology in 2023 and

The College of Science would like to recognize one of Dr. Cuchta’s students, Richard Williams. Richard is a mathematics major and he gave a talk at the Allegheny Mountain Section conference of the Mathematical Association of America. The conference was held in Fairmont, WV on April 5th and 6th. Richard gave a presentation titled “A

Marshall faculty, staff, students, and our community joined together yesterday for a wonderful viewing of the Solar Eclipse. The College of Science would like to thank Dr. Sean McBride, Dr. Sachiko McBride, the Marshall University Astronomy Club, and the Society of Physics Students for making this viewing event such an amazing gathering!

Congratulations to Caroline Cartwright, former student in Dr. Chirchir’s lab, on her publication in the Journal of Human Evolution. The paper is titled “Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans”. Her research confirmed existing work suggesting that modern humans have ‘lightly’ built skeletons in having low bone density compared to our ancestors

Congratulations to Dr. Laura McCunn-Jordan! She has been selected to receive the 2023-24 Marshall & Shirley Reynolds Outstanding Teacher Award.

Over Spring break, 27 undergraduate students and 5 faculty members represented the Department of Chemistry at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans. Fifteen of the students made poster or oral presentations of their research.