The Newsletter for Marshall University                                      June 22, 2022
Faculty and Staff 
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In Memoriam: Dave Wellman

Dave Wellman, director of communications at Marshall from 2001 to 2018, died yesterday at the age of 69. Prior to joining Marshall as a staff member, he was a longtime sports and senior reporter for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, a position he had held since graduating from Marshall in 1975. He received numerous awards from Gannett and the West Virginia Press …

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Board of Governors approves capital projects list

Amid receiving end-of-year updates ranging from finance to earnings to budgets, the Marshall University Board of Governors approved at its June 16 meeting a Capital Expenditure Project Report (CEPR) for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (HEPC), should funding become available. While Marshall’s current CEPR list includes some $532 million worth of proposed projects from the 10-year campus master …

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Shakirov wins highly competitive NIH R01 grant to continue research

Dr. Eugene Shakirov (pictured), an assistant professor of biological sciences at Marshall, was awarded a $1.18 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will support his research, “Genetic and epigenetic architecture of natural telomere length variation.” The highly competitive grant award is a renewal of …

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Coronavirus Statistics:

New Cases Since June 8, 2022

   Students: 2
   Faculty: 1
   Staff*: 2

* 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.
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The next regular issue of We Are...Marshall will be distributed June 29, 2022. Please send items for consideration to WAMnewsletter@marshall.edu by 5 p.m. Monday, June 27, 2022.
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