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Dr. Suzanne Konz, director of the Marshall University biomechanics programs, was on sabbatical last year, during which time she earned the Dr. C. Harmon Brown award from USA Track and Field and was appointed chair of the National Athletics Trainers’ Association (NATA) Committee on Professional Ethics.
Marshall University’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety is partnering with Marshall Health and the Cabell-Huntington Health Department for the university’s next phase of COVID-19 testing, which will begin on the Huntington campus next Tuesday, Sept. 8, and extend through Nov. 20. This phase—referred to as sentinel surveillance testing—means the university will be continually testing
The Marshall University Brad D. Smith Business Incubator has named Tricia Ball as the new leader of the entrepreneurship facility, located in downtown Huntington.
The Marshall University School of Art and Design has two exhibits on display this month. “In Hindsight” is open now through Sept. 17 in the Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery in the Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington. The exhibition “Foundations Review Rewind: Spring 2020,” will be displayed Sept. 9-18 in the Birke Art Gallery, inside Smith Hall on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.
Dr. Brad Profitt, assistant professor in the Marshall University School of Physical Therapy, will be part of the University of Louisville’s (UofL) LaunchIt program through the UofL NSF I-Corps site program in partnership with the Southeast XLerator Network. Profitt has developed a therapeutic device used to regain knee extension after an injury or surgery. Profitt has a patent pending for the knee extender and is working closely with the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) on the extender.
Marshall Health will offer weekly Saturday sports medicine screening clinics, beginning Sept. 5, from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Marshall Sports Medicine Institute, 2211 Third Avenue in Huntington.
Marshall University’s June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development is partnering with the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) and the Dollywood Foundation to provide age-appropriate books to children from ages birth to five in West Virginia. This is taking place through the Imagination Library, a program of the Dollywood Foundation started by musician Dolly Parton.
The Marshall University Board of Governors today moved a step closer to the takeoff of its new aviation maintenance program, a joint academic endeavor with Mountwest Community and Technical College. The program will be housed at Tri-State Airport. The two-year degree program, which President Jerome A. Gilbert says is the first of its kind in
Marshall Health’s specialty pharmacies at the Marshall University Medical Center and the Erma Ora Byrd Clinical Center recently earned accreditation through August 2023 from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC).
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 Continual Learning. The class start date has been changed from Monday, Aug. 31, to Monday, Sept. 14.