Science Abstracts News Archive

Join Physics and the College of Science for High School Science Day on April 7th, 2025, from 10am to 1:30pm! This is a FREE event and lunch will be provided. RSVP your spot with Dr. Sean P. McBride (mcbrides@marshall.edu). Students will experience numerous exciting and engaging 10-minute STEM demonstrations, taste the phase changes of liquid

Congratulations, Dr. Kim! The co-authored paper by the Kim Group (Eugene Kim and Yongick Kim), in collaboration with Wei Li (School of Medicine at Marshall University), titled “Thymidine Phosphorylase Mediates SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Enhanced Thrombosis in K18-hACE2TG Mice,” has been published in Thrombosis Research. The full paper is available on the Thrombosis Research website.

Soren Tyree gave an oral presentation of her research titled “Structural Analysis of a Metamorphic Protein using AlphaFold2” in the Enzyme Mechanism and Chemical Biology of Protein Posttranslational Modifications session, under the Division of Biological Chemistry, at Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) 2024 in Atlanta, GA on October 26, 2024. This

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Gage for the release of the book he contributed to recently. The release will be done in conjunction with the First Yale University Global Justice Program Symposium on Pro-Poor Mountain Tourism on December 5th. He will be presenting a brief summary of his chapter at the Symposium and anyone who is

Last Friday, two outstanding presentations from Marshall Cyber Forensics and Security program were given at the First Annual Putnam County Career and Technical Center’s Cybersecurity Conference. Current CFS student and Women In Cybersecurity – Marshall University Student Chapter Treasurer, Hope Fry gave an excellent presentation on “Networking: The Secret Ingredient to Career Success,” bringing fresh

Congratulations to Brendin Flinn for successfully defended his thesis and for his recent publication! Brendin, the first author on the publication, developed the idea in CHM 678, Applied Microscopy in Research, with Dr. Norton and David Neff. His co-authors include Marshall undergraduates, Hayden O’Dell and Kara Joseph, and from our UNC Chapel Hill collaboration, Dr.

Marshall University has received an out-of-this-world addition to campus, an Artemis Moon Tree (a sweetgum sapling)! NASA’s Artemis campaign aims to return to the Moon for exploration and to establish a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. The first mission, Artemis I, launched on November 16, 2022, marking the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 17

Two stellar events are being held this month at the Huntington Museum of Art! NASA Solar System Ambassador and Marshall University Grad Student Ellie White will be speaking and having a Q & A session afterwards about NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission and the search for life in the Solar System. Ellie’s talk will be followed

Sarah, our new Director of Stakeholder Engagement had a great time representing Marshall University College of Engineering and Computer Sciences and the College of Science at the Tri-State STEM+M college and career fair in South Point yesterday! It was inspiring to meet so many talented students eager to explore new paths in STEM. She is

On 9 November 2024, two mathematics faculty Dr. Trung Truong and Dr. Tom Cuchta took a group of students to the 42nd Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations, held this year at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. There were five talks contributed by students and faculty from Marshall’s Department of Mathematics and Physics. One