{"id":23086,"date":"2021-12-15T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=23086"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:52:43","slug":"biology-faculty-member-awarded-grant-to-conduct-anatomy-education-for-high-schoolers-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/biology-faculty-member-awarded-grant-to-conduct-anatomy-education-for-high-schoolers-in-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology faculty members awarded grant to conduct anatomy education for high schoolers in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr. Habiba Chirchir (pictured), an associate professor of biological sciences in Marshall University\u2019s College of Science, has been awarded a grant by the American Association for Anatomists. The $50,000 grant will support the development and implementation of an anatomy training program for high schoolers in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Suzanne Strait, professor of biological sciences at Marshall,\u00a0will also participate in the training program.<\/p>\n<p>The training will be impactful to West Virginia students and their teachers, including\u00a0minorities and those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.\u00a0Through training teachers in\u00a0hands-on, problem-based learning and dissection methods, the implementation of the anatomy training program will prepare learners for\u00a0collegiate anatomical studies and health care fields.<\/p>\n<p>Chirchir earned her Ph.D. in human paleobiology from George Washington University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian, where she was named the Smithsonian Secretary\u2019s Distinguished Research Awardee for 2014. Here at Marshall, Chirchir is a 2019 recipient of the\u00a0Junior Faculty Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award.<\/p>\n<p>She teaches human anatomy, human biology and principles of organic evolution in the biological sciences department and also holds a joint appointment as a research associate at the Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Strait earned a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences from Stony Brook University in New York, and her bachelor\u2019s degree in biological anthropology from Hampshire College. She was a 2019-2020 recipient of Marshall&#8217;s Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award, as a senior recipient for science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Marshall\u2019s biological sciences programs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/biology\">www.marshall.edu\/biology<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Habiba Chirchir, an associate professor of biological sciences in Marshall University\u2019s College of Science, has been awarded a grant by the American Association for Anatomists. The $50,000 grant will support the development and implementation of an anatomy training program for high schoolers in West Virginia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":23087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45,46,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cos","category-featured","category-murc","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23086"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23157,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086\/revisions\/23157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}