MURC News Archive

The Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery, part of the Marshall University Research Corporation, is set to host the Building Bridges Prevention Conference Monday, Aug. 23.

The Marshall University Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) has three new Recovery Scholarship opportunities available for students registered for classes during the 2021 fall semester.

Nominations are now open for the Power of Performance awards. Members of the Small Communities, BIG Solutions conference awards selection committee are now accepting nominations for southern West Virginia success stories. 

A Marshall University team of researchers led by Dr. Nasim Nosoudi, assistant professor of biomedical engineering (pictured), has been awarded a $267,658 National Science Foundation (NSF) MRI grant to acquire a CytoViva enhanced darkfield optical microscope to assist with research in nanotechnology.

Marshall University athletic training faculty members Mark Timmons, Ph.D., ATC, LAT, and Zach Garrett, D,H,Sc,, ATC, are coauthors, along with former student and first author Nathan Harrison, on a study recently published in the Journal of Sport and Rehabilitation. The study, titled “Serratus Anterior Fatigue Reduces Scapular Posterior Tilt and External Rotation During Arm Elevation,”

The West Virginia Collegiate Recovery Network is hosting its 2nd annual state conference Friday, Sept. 24  in Lewisburg, West Virginia, at West Virginia Building Annex, located on the state fairgrounds. This year’s conference will revolve around the theme of music, while being focused on students.

The Marshall University Research Corporation was recently named the awardee on two grants from the U.S. Navy. The first is a $104,992 federal contract for Herpetofaunal and Small Mammal Survey. The second is a $89,817 contract for a vegetation survey and assessment of vegetation vulnerability to sea-level rise.

Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery, along with many partners through West Virginia, is set to host the next in a set of behavioral health trainings in the state, this one in Harrison County. The collaboration brings the Center of Excellence for Recovery together with the West Virginia Department of Education, the WV Bureau

According to researchers at Marshall University, a maternal diet rich in Omega-3 fatty acids protects from breast cancer development in offspring. In a new study recently published by Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology, researchers noted a significant difference in mice from mothers that were fed a diet rich in canola oil, compared with mothers fed a diet rich in corn oil.

The Marshall University Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) is establishing three new recovery scholarship opportunities for students for the summer 2021 sessions.