MURC News Archive
The Prevention Empowerment Partnership (PEP) is seeking monetary donations from the local community in hopes of reaching their goal of raising $2,100 to support the efforts and goals of their 3rd annual Holiday Card Project. The Holiday Card Project focuses on 75-100 Cabell County youth of middle school and high school age, who are often left out of typical community-giving events, and over 400 Cabell County seniors who are in nursing homes or homebound.
Students from multiple institutions in the West Virginia Collegiate Recovery Network, housed in the Marshall University Research Corporation, have been selected to take part in the national Collegiate Recovery Leadership Academy, sponsored by the SAFE Project.
The West Virginia Antibiotic Awareness initiative at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has received additional funding to support its efforts to encourage appropriate antibiotic use in the state of West Virginia.
The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has been awarded $1.11 million by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for a new initiative that takes an innovative, multigenerational approach to workforce development. The Career Opportunities for Appalachian Legacy (COAL) project will leverage the success of the Creating Opportunities for Recovery Employment (CORE) initiative at
Marshall University (Marshall) today was awarded $1.5 million by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to establish West Virginia Grant Resource Centers (Grant Centers) to assist communities and other eligible applicants in developing competitive grant applications. The project is a collaboration among Marshall, West Virginia University (WVU), and the State of West Virginia’s Department of Economic Development (WVDED).
The Appalachian Transportation Institute (ATI), housed in the Marshall University Research Corporation, is the recipient of a $586,965 federal grant to improve crash report analysis in the state of West Virginia. ATI’s primary goal with the award is to develop partnerships with commercial motor vehicle (CMV) stakeholders in West Virginia to improve the accuracy and accessibility of CMV crash data so that more efficient enforcement activities and geometric improvements can be executed in priority locations.
Wei Li, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular biologist and associate professor of biomedical sciences at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, was recently awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further his thrombosis research.
The Prevention Empowerment Partnership (PEP), with Marshall University’s Center of Excellence for Recovery, has been awarded $526,000 for two years from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
The Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery is the recipient of a $4.9 million award through congressionally directed spending requested by U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito.
A new study by researchers at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine found that lower initial cortisol levels may serve as a predictor for retention in treatment programs for substance use disorder.