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“Not for Sale: Sex Trafficking in the U.S.” will be the topic of a free public panel at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will award 61 Doctor of Medicine degrees at the school’s annual investiture ceremony at 5 p.m. Friday, May 6, at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center. Admission is by invitation only.

Awards of distinction will be presented and retiring faculty recognized during Marshall University’s spring general faculty meeting Tuesday, April 26, at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on the Huntington campus.

Sarah Nix, a Marshall University sophomore Honors College student and Yeager Scholar, has won the Boren Scholarship for International Study.

Sharon Napier, a senior International Affairs major, has become the third Marshall University student to win a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS).

Dr. Michael Woods, assistant professor of history at Marshall University, will be spending his summer researching for his latest book, thanks to a National Endowment for the Humanities award.

The 2016 winners of the Maier Awards, sponsored annually by the Maier Foundation Inc., and hosted by Marshall University’s College of Liberal Arts, were announced Monday, April 18, during a ceremony at the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall on Marshall’s Huntington campus.

Thomas E. Menighan, R. Ph., M.B.A., executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American Pharmacists Association, will give the commencement address at the inaugural Marshall University School of Pharmacy graduation scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, May 5, at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in Huntington.

A Marshall University alumnus has received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing.

Dr. David Trowbridge, an associate professor of history at Marshall University, has been selected for The Whiting Foundation’s Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship.