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The department of family and community health at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has received a $61,142 grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to develop educational initiatives to fight the opioid crisis in our region.

Marshall University student Malayna Bailey won first place in the 2017 Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA) contest sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Dr. Tamara Gravano of the Marshall University College of Health Professions has received the Lucy Blair Service Award presented by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

Jennifer Niemann, an undergraduate student in the Marshall University Department of Mathematics, has received a national research award sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE).

Dr. Eric R. Blough, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and research at Marshall University, has been selected as the university’s Dr. Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award winner for 2016-2017.

Whether she is winning prestigious awards from the national honor society for women in chemistry or traveling across the U.S. to present her biochemistry research, Amanda Smythers is setting the standard for what it means to be a young scholar.

Equipped with popcorn, cotton candy and games, students from Marshall University joined youth at Huntington’s A.D. Lewis Center after-school program during Marshall Day at the A.D. Lewis Center on Friday, Jan. 27.

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Rachel Rinehart, a visiting assistant professor at Marshall University, has won the 2016 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, the Fresno State Creative Writing Program has announced.

Four Marshall University students will be commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the U.S. Army during the university’s annual ROTC Commissioning Ceremony at 11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 16, in the Memorial Student Center’s basement in room BE4.