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Marshall University’s public relations academic program earned eight awards—including top honors for campaigns—at the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)-River Cities chapter’s Tribus Awards ceremony held Tuesday evening, May 19, via Zoom.
With continued social distancing measures in place, the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will host its summer pipeline programs for high school and college students online this year. In lieu of traditional on-campus residential experiences, the School of Medicine will use online platforms to engage participants in experiential learning that helps them prepare for application to medical school.
Through the use of a newly developed needle arthroscope, incisionless and single-incision surgical procedures are possible for repairing certain types of knee and shoulder injuries, suggests a series of Marshall University studies published in Arthroscopy Techniques, a companion to Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery.
Prospective students who didn’t get the opportunity to visit Marshall University’s Huntington campus this spring for a Green and White Day open house event now have the chance to do so virtually at their convenience, at www.marshall.edu/tour.
Since 2002, the Huntington Scottish Rite Foundation has held fundraisers each year aimed at raising over $40,000 for the families served by the Marshall University Speech and Hearing Center. Even though the organization’s fundraisers have been canceled in response to COVID-19, the Huntington Scottish Rite Foundation Board met Tuesday, May 12, and voted to provide funding in the amount of $41,900 through endowment support.
The College of Engineering and Computer Sciences at Marshall University will add three online master’s degree programs in the fall of 2020.
Marshall University’s and The Pottery Place’s monthlong virtual Empty Bowls sale raised $9,705 for the Facing Hunger Foodbank.
Marshall journalism professor Dan Hollis and WMUL-FM, Marshall’s public radio station, have been honored with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for the third time in the past four years by the Radio Television Digital News Association.
Dr. Habiba Chirchir, an assistant professor of biology in Marshall’s College of Science, has been selected by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to serve on the Science Policy Committee for a two-year term, beginning July 1, and has recently received a competitive research grant from the Leakey Foundation.
Marshall University’s Jazz Studies program in the School of Music will offer a Virtual Jazz Camp June 8-12, in place of its usual Jazz-MU-Tazz jazz camp this summer.