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The Marshall University Sustainability Department is hosting its weekly Fresh Market Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Wednesday throughout the growing season in the Memorial Student Center on the Huntington campus.

Twenty-one students from colleges and universities around the nation are scheduled to arrive Monday for the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine’s Project P.R.E.M.E.D. (Providing Real World Experiences for future Marshall Educated Doctors).

The department of family and community health at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has received a five-year, $1.22 million grant from the federal government to develop ways to educate and train new physicians in novel methods of primary care.

Paul Finch, M.D., a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric oncologist/hematologist, has joined the department of pediatrics at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center as an assistant professor.

Third-year family medicine resident physician Katherine J. Steele, M.D., has been selected as the July 2015 Resident of the Month.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Four biomedical science Ph.D. students from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine have received West Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship grants to fund their continued dissertation research in a variety of disease-related areas.

M.O. Faruk Khan, M. Pharm, B. Pharm, Ph.D., M.B.A, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at the Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy, has been named chairman of the department of pharmaceutical sciences and research at the Marshall University School of Pharmacy.

Two local businesses committed to improving healthy lifestyles have joined together to raise money for Marshall University’s 5th annual Lose the Training Wheels summer camp, which teaches children with special needs how to ride bicycles.

The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine welcomed Dr. James C. Kitchen and Dr. Nathaniel S. Adkins to its clinical faculty in the Department of Surgery.

Marshall University Forensic Science Center DNA Technical Leader Jason Chute delivered a presentation about a successful pilot project to review and expedite sexual assault kit cases recently at the 12th Annual DNA Technical Workshop Bode West in Coronado, Calif.