RCBI Part Of Nation’s First Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute

West Virginia’s Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) is a partner in a major federal investment that will establish the nation’s first Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute under the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation http://www.manufacturing.gov/amp/nnmi.html (NNMI). The new initiative, which will receive $30 million in federal funds, is designed to connect industry, universities, community colleges, […]

Marshall University biomedical sciences students to co-host conference in Charleston

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine biomedical sciences students, in collaboration with students from West Virginia University, the University of Kentucky and Ohio University, will host the first Appalachian Regional Cell Conference in an effort to expand the field of cell biology research in the region. The conference is scheduled to begin at […]

Tennessee professor to speak at MU on 1824 ‘election gone wrong’

Daniel Feller, Ph.D., the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Amicus Curiae Lecture Series at Marshall University. Feller’s lecture, titled The People’s Will Denied? Backroom Politics And The Election Of 1824, is the second in the Amicus Curiae fall 2012 […]

MU assistant professor to discuss importance of including women in process of rebuilding and creating sustainable peace after war

Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva, an assistant professor in Marshall University’s department of history, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26,  in the Drinko Library auditorium (room 402) on Marshall’s Huntington campus. Tabyshalieva will discuss her new book, a volume she co-edited with Albrecht Schnabel, called Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding.  Published this […]

Marshall graduate pledges $300,000 for Medical School scholarships

Donald L. “Don” Blankenship, a 1972 Marshall University graduate, has generously committed $300,000 over a three-year period for scholarships at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Blankenship made the pledge in honor of his mother, Nancy Marie McCoy, who passed away in 1995. The first $100,000 gift was received in early September. “The demographics […]