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The Newsletter for Marshall University June 8, 2022
Faculty and Staff
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Dear Marshall University community, Late last month, I announced several efforts underway to better align the university’s organizational structure for the next chapter of Marshall University. This work reflected input and partnership with the leaders of our Faculty Senate, Classified Staff Council and Student Government Association. One of the strategic roles foreshadowed in that communication was the elevation of human …
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Marshall will present an exhibition featuring 10 blocks from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a piece of art conceived in November of 1985 by longtime San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS and help others understand the devastating impact of the disease. The exhibition will open Friday, June 10, in …
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The Marshall University Foundation has announced that Service Wire Company has committed $1 million in support of the Brad D. Smith Center for Business and Innovation at Marshall University.
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New Student Orientation sessions began this week for all incoming-first time freshman and transfer students at www.marshall.edu/orientation. All new students, including freshman and transfer, are expected to participate in an orientation session. Sessions will take place this week through June 10, July 12 to 15 and Aug. 3 to 4 on the Huntington campus, as well as a virtual session …
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Jinju Wang, Ph.D., a research assistant professor of biomedical sciences at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, received funding to further research on ischemic stroke. Wang received a three-year Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) totaling $231,000. Ischemic stroke is a disease caused by a sudden loss of blood flow to an area of …
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The Marshall University Research Corporation has announced the winners of the Spring 2023 John Marshall Scholars Award program for faculty and the Summer 2022 Undergraduate Creative Discovery and Research Awards. The four awardees of the John Marshall Scholars Award program will receive a semester-long, four-course reassigned time commitment. Since its inception, the John Marshall Scholars program has supported the creative …
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Local primary care physician Friday G. Simpson, M.D., has established a new scholarship at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine for future primary care physicians in West Virginia. The Dr. Friday G. Simpson Scholarship is designated for a fourth-year medical student at Marshall who matched in a primary care residency in West Virginia. Simpson is a native …
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Marshall will host a Juneteenth Celebration on Thursday, June 16, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. on the Huntington campus. The program is free and open to the public and will feature food and live music from FourChill. The event will be held under a tent on Harless Field on Fifth Ave. between Harless Dining Hall and City National Bank. Juneteenth …
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Dr. Judy Fan, associate professor in the Department of Physics, has been awarded a 2022 John Marshall Summer Scholar Award for her proposal titled Thermal-Photo-Electronic Hybrid Device for Energy Harvesting. In this project, a hybrid device consisting of a thermoelectric generator and a perovskite solar cell is proposed to enable waste heat recycling to reduce global-warming effect and carbon dioxide …
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Dr. Anthony J. Viola (Department of English) has published a novel, All Lies Begin with Truth, which is set in a fictional town in western Kentucky. Divided into three distinct perspectives, the novel explores the social and environmental complexities of natural gas extraction. Release date is June 9. |
Rafael Alfonso, a rising sophomore student at Marshall, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award from the Fulbright Commission to study Technology, Creativity, and Innovation at the Fulbright Scotland Summer Institute in the University of Strathclyde and the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. Alfonso is a double major at Marshall, studying creative writing and computer science. “The …
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The annual June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony was held on the evening of May 12 on the Huntington campus. During the ceremony, individuals and organizations were inducted into the Harless Hall of Fame to show appreciation and give recognition to those who have contributed to the West Virginia education …
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Benjamin Paul McElroy, a graduating senior at Huntington High School, has been awarded the Huntington Rotary Club Scholarship toward his education at Marshall. The President Stephen J. Kopp Memorial Huntington Rotary Club Scholarship provides $1,250 per year and is renewable for up to four years, for a total of $5,000, by maintaining satisfactory progress in his program of study at …
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Coronavirus Statistics:New Cases Since May 25, 2022 Students: 0
Faculty: 0
Staff*: 6 * Includes auxiliary employees (Sodexo, Aetna, Rec Center, etc.) All testing is being done in partnership with Marshall Health, Cabell Huntington Hospital, Pleasant Valley Hospital, QLabs Inc. and MedExpress Urgent Care. The most recent information is always available at www.marshall.edu/coronavirus/dashboard. |
The next regular issue of We Are...Marshall will be distributed June 15, 2022. Please send items for consideration to WAMnewsletter@marshall.edu by 5 p.m. Monday, June 13, 2022. |
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