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Last spring, COHP social work faculty member Dr. Peggy Harman and her husband, Jason, spent nine months filming and editing the documentary “George Rashid: The Leper of Pickens.” Now, the story of George Rashid, a young Lebanese/Syrian man who was ostracized for the lesions on his skin, will be told at the West Virginia FILMmakers Festival

Kumika Toma, an assistant professor and the undergraduate exercise program director in our college, received a $15,381 grant from NASA to study microgravity and how astronauts can avoid muscle decay from being in space. Learn more here.

View the photo gallery of the 2016 annual Quoits tournament here.

The Pediatric Research Subgroup of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Region III Opioid Overdose Prevention Collaborative has been approved for a $15,000 award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support a project on “Engaging Community Partners to Decrease Addiction.” Jo Dee Gottlieb, director of the undergraduate social work program

Our dean, Dr. Michael Prewitt, represented the institution’s chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi—the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines—at the 44th Biennial Convention held July 28-30 in Atlanta, Ga. Prewitt currently serves as President of the Marshall University chapter and attended the convention as the chapter’s voting

Dr. Joseph Touma of Touma Hearing Centers has made a contribution to help provide hearing protection for music students and faculty through Marshall University’s Center for Wellness in the Arts. Learn more here.

For Marshall student Tyler Cravens, it took two years of waiting before he was able to pursue his dreams of becoming the next American Ninja Warrior. After recovering from a motorcycle accident last year, Cravens, 26, of Chesapeake, Ohio, will compete in the Philadelphia qualifier round of “American Ninja Warrior,” a television show that features

Dr. Kumika Toma of the Marshall University College of Health Professions has made significant contributions in determining the causes of rosacea, according to a research study published in the Journal of Neurophysiology last summer. Learn more here.

Four Marshall University faculty members have been named directors of the university’s Center for Wellness in the Arts. To help manage the momentum behind the center for performing and visual artists, co-founders Nicole Perrone, associate professor of theatre, and Dr. Henning Vauth, associate professor of music, were appointed directors along with Dr. Karen McNealy, chair

Marshall University’s College of Health Professions is hosting the “Lose the Training Wheels” camp July 18-22 and for the first time, the university has partnered with the Phil Cline Family YMCA to host the summer sessions. Learn more about how you can volunteer or serve as a corporate sponsor here.