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The Marshall University School of Music will present “Strings Attached,” featuring Marshall faculty members Dr. Elizabeth Reed Smith on violin, Dr. Şőlen Dikener on cello and Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves on guitar.

Marshall University School of Pharmacy and the Fairfield Neighborhood are hosting “Celebrating the Right to Vote with a Local Perspective,” a complimentary brunch and panel discussion from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at Stephen J. Kopp Hall in Huntington.

The clinician scientists at the Marshall Clinical Research Center (MCRC) are drawing national attention for their participation in large-scale clinical trials through the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.

Area residents who would like to learn—or brush up on—Italian are invited to register for a ten-week Conversational Italian class offered by Marshall University’s Division of Continuing Learning. The class will meet at Hurricane High School starting Monday Feb. 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Marshall University will host the 2nd annual TEDxMarshallU event organized by students, faculty and staff. The event will take place at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14 in Jean Carlo Stephenson Auditorium in Huntington City Hall. TEDxMarshallU is a public event, but will require the purchase of tickets. Tickets went on sale Jan. 28.

Amanda Jones, education coordinator in the department of neuroscience at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, was recently awarded the 2020 Clerkship Coordinator Recognition Award by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

Lawrence C. Uradu, M.D., a 2012 alumnus of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has established a scholarship for medical students who have completed the school’s Project P.R.E.M.E.D. program.

The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission has renewed grant funding for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at schools around the state including Marshall University. SURE grants offer undergraduate students at Marshall the opportunity for hands-on experience in science, technology, engineering and mathematics research

The Marshall University Black Alumni (MUBA) chapter has elected new officers for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Marshall University’s Dr. Stephen M. Underhill has published The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI with Michigan State University Press. It is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and other retailers. Underhill examines how longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover incited the Red Scare to undermine Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, as well as the New Deal.