The Newsletter for Marshall University                                      Nov. 30, 2022
Faculty and Staff 
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Annual Herd Holiday celebration returns

Marshall University invited the community to a Herd Holiday Nov. 29, in the Memorial Student Center on the Huntington campus. The annual event featured the official holiday lighting on the student center plaza, along with numerous activities, snacks, giveaways and music. President Brad D. Smith and First Lady Alys Smith lit the traditional holiday tree, and the program included performances …

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Marshall Health establishes postdoctoral fellowship program for adult neuropsychology

Marshall Health and the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine have established a new postdoctoral fellowship program that offers advanced training opportunities in adult clinical neuropsychology. The two-year program focuses on a field of psychology dedicated to the advanced understanding of brain-behavior relationships. Fellows work closely with the experienced neuropsychologists at Marshall Health to acquire advanced skills in …

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Next German 'Meet and Eat' to take place Friday

The December German Meet & Eat is coming up on Friday, Dec. 2, at 6 p.m.  at Bahnhof Restaurant: 745 7th Ave. in Huntington, WV. Interested in German Language and culture? This is a casual German conversation group open to students and residents which will typically take place the first Friday of every month at Bahnhof. There is no age limit or skill level …

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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to the Keith-Albee

Join the Marshall Artists Series when Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure back to Huntington at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m.  The start time for this event was recently changed to 7 p.m. due to the Huntington Christmas Parade also starting at 7 p.m. Created in …

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Faculty Achievement: Dr. Sasha Zill

Dr. Sasha Zill and medical student Sumaiya Chaudhry, in collaboration with colleagues from West Virginia University (Dr. Nicholas Szczecinski and graduate student Will Zyhowski) presented two posters at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego in November 2022.  The posters were titled "What makes walking behavior 'naturalistic'? Feedback signaling the rate of change of force (dF/dt) in serially homologous …

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Application period underway for Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Fellowship Award

Applications are now being accepted for the Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Fellowship Award* for the 2023– 2024 academic year. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2022. The purpose of this fellowship award, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia (CSEGA), is to promote scholarship on gender, race, and/or ethnicity in Appalachia. The fellowship …

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Deadline for honors seminar proposals is Monday, Jan. 23

What is a course that you dream of doing? The Honors College provides faculty of programs from across the university the opportunity to design and teach Honors Seminars on subjects that inspire them, but that they may not have the opportunity to teach within their regular teaching duties. Faculty in our small sections of HON 480 work with outstanding, highly-motivated …

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Coronavirus Statistics:

New Cases Since Nov. 16, 2022

   Students: 0
   Faculty: 0
   Staff*: 0

* 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 Dec. 7, 2022. Please send items for consideration to WAMnewsletter@marshall.edu by 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, 2022.
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