Huntington Mayor Steve Williams proclaimed Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, as Dr. Carter G. Woodson Day during a ceremony today at Marshall University. The life of Woodson, a former Huntington resident known as The Father of African American History, is being remembered throughout February, which is Black History Month. Among other speakers today were Marshall President

Burnis Morris, Marshall University’s Dr. Carter G. Woodson Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has been selected as a 2016 History Hero, for which he will be honored during the West Virginia History Day at the Legislature program Friday, Jan. 29. The program will be held in the State Theater at the

Marshall University’s public radio station, WMUL-FM, has been named a finalist for Best College/University Radio Station (more than 10,000 students) in the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System’s annual awards contest.

Boasting such names as Marvin Stone, Ernie Salvatore, Joe Johns, Estelle Belanger, Jim Comstock and even pioneer television comedian Soupy Sales in its Hall of Fame, the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SOJMC) is seeking nominations for its upcoming induction class.

Students from Marshall University’s public radio station, WMUL-FM, received three (3) Platinum Awards, four (4) Gold Awards and three (3) Honorable Mention Awards in the MarCom Creative Awards 2015 Competition. The MarCom Creative Awards contest is an international competition that recognizes achievement by marketing and communication practitioners.

Students from Marshall University’s public radio station, WMUL-FM, received two finalist awards in the 2015 College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) National Student Radio Production Awards Ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saturday, Oct. 24. Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of Radio-Television Production and Management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and

WMUL-FM 88.1 MHz, Marshall University’s student-run radio station, will feature Red Dawson on Sportsview Wednesday, Nov. 11. Dawson was the only returning coach to the 1971 Marshall football team after the 1970 plane crash, which took the lives of 75 people. Sportsview is a weekly sports talk show in which the FM88 Sports Team speaks

Beginning in the spring of 2017, Marshall University’s College of Arts and Media will award the C. Bosworth “Bos” Johnson Memorial Scholarship in honor of the late journalist, Marshall alumnus and professor. “Whatever my Dad was doing—as news director or journalism professor or public relations executive—he was always teaching,” Dr. Beth Johnson Paulsen, Johnson’s daughter

Identifying, establishing and maintaining mutually-beneficial relationships with the strongest of ethics, between an organization and its publics on whom its success or failure depends, is the focus of public relations. Two Marshall University public relations classes scored big on those efforts this week for their work on campaigns for two area nonprofit organizations.