Marshall University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology will serve as host to the 51st annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society April 7-9.

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine clinician researchers have published a review looking at the efficacy of a diagnostic thyroid cancer test becoming routinely used in hospitals and medical centers across the country.

Marshall University and West Virginia University have teamed up to provide free online access to publications for courses on the Mountain State’s history.

The West Virginia Elks Association recently donated $1,000 to Marshall University’s Veterans for Veterans, a student organization composed of student veterans.

Throughout 2016, Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab Satellite Network will launch an educational project called Nearby Nature that will enable middle- and high-school students in Pennsylvania and West Virginia to study scientific phenomena in almost any outdoor space.

Burnis Morris, Marshall University’s Dr. Carter G. Woodson Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has been selected as a 2016 History Hero, for which he will be honored during the West Virginia History Day at the Legislature program Friday, Jan. 29.

The Marshall University Forensic Identification Association (MUFIA) will host a dinner and silent auction in order to provide funds for the advancement of the Hoops Family Children’s Hospital on Saturday, Jan. 23. The event will take place in the atrium of Cabell Huntington Hospital starting at 6 p.m.

A fourth-year medical student at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has matched into an ophthalmology residency position through a specialized national matching process called the San Francisco Match.

Marshall University will help celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. The event will include a host of activities honoring the late civil rights leader.

Paulette S. Wehner, M.D., vice dean for graduate medical education at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has been selected by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to serve as a member of the Sponsoring Institution 2025 Task Force.